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This Sunday’s celebration of the great apostles Peter and Paul is a celebration of the Church.

In choosing Jesus we also choose the cross and there is real death, and the pain involved here cannot be softened or ...

Gently but firmly correcting their perception of “success,” Jesus invites them to remember what is truly important.

On this Sunday's Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, the Church honors two saints who responded to the Lord's call to ...

NOTE: Christ in Our Neighborhood is a parish-based program consisting of small Christian communities that gather in the home ...

St. Andrew, whose feast day is Nov. 30, was one of the two initial disciples of John the Baptist who encountered Jesus at the beginning of John’s Gospel.

According to tradition, the author, Mark is not an apostle himself. Not one of the original disciples, but rather the follower of one of them. Traditionally, he's supposed to be the disciple of ...

Each one of us needs both Peter and the Beloved Disciple in his heart. A Peter who acts and a Beloved Disciple who points to Jesus, the source of our fruitfulness. In this mass we pray to the merciful ...

Jesus said that he must go up to Jerusalem where he’d be rejected by the authorities, be killed, and three days after his death he would live again. The disciples Listening: A gift of kindness ...

Peter to Jesus. “No, Jesus, you’re not going to suffer and die. ... Jesus said to his disciples and to us — I am going up to Jerusalem and must undergo great suffering.