In today’s Gospel, Jesus brings Peter, James, and John up a mountain, a place considered the dwelling of God, where, from a cloud, also a reference to the presence of God as in the pillar of cloud ...
As dawn broke on the site where the Ten Commandments are believed to have been delivered to Moses, hundreds of Catholics led by dozens of priests knelt before the foot of the mountain. They prayed for ...
Pharaoh’s downfall in the Red Sea (Exodus 14). Wood engraving, published in 1886. We are all familiar with the telling of the story. At the seder, after the youngest child recites the ma ...