From the young St. Francis de Sales's heroic efforts to bring Calvinists back to the Faith comes this succinct, eloquent defense of the age-old Catholic ...

Author Bert Ghezzi shows how this potent prayer engages the Holy Spirit and affirms Christian identity. With insights derived from Scripture, church teachings, ...

This book presents a unique effort to create a new understanding of the Christian sign of the cross. At its core, it traces the conscious and unconscious ...

As Guernon points out, the cross is one of the most universal of all symbols and is far from belonging to Christianity alone. Indeed, Christians have sometimes ...

Aug 1, 2020 ... Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book delves into the thriving industry of religious infrastructure in Romania, ...

The sign of the Cross comes to mind, which over the centuries has become the symbol par excellence of Christians. Even today, those who wish to “see Jesus”, ...

... sign of the cross on it. Thus the religion to embrace was that of the friars who bore the cross, and the child within her womb was Jesus Christ, the Savior.

Jul 7, 2020 ... We dip our fingers into common basins of holy water and dab it on our forehand and torso while making the sign of the cross. There are ...

Jan 1, 2011 ... This book is a little masterpiece: it informs and it explores, it recounts history and it provokes a religious quest. It is a personal book, ...

Apr 17, 2017 ... ... symbol of Christianity inspires. Jesus's death on the cross posed a dilemma for Saint Paul and the early Church fathers. Crucifixion was a ...

In other words, they were making “the sign of the cross” which ultimately ... Red is also a symbol for the sacrificial blood of Christ, our entry into salvation.

Sep 10, 1997 ... religious or otherwide, in public. Incidentally, when the > cortage passed the waiting male mourners in the Mall, Lord Spencer made the > Sign ...

Jun 20, 2019 ... "A government that roams the land, tearing down monuments with religious symbolism and scrubbing away any reference to the divine will strike ...

As a sign of mourning, Good Friday is the only day in the liturgical ... Adoration or veneration of an image or representation of Christ's cross does ...

Jun 20, 2019 ... Alito said the Lemon test presents particularly daunting problems in cases that involve the ceremonial use of words or symbols with religious ...

Nov 2, 2018 ... ... religion and excessively entangles the government in religion. ... “The Latin cross is the core symbol of Christianity,” the majority said.

Christians are encouraged but not required to not wash the ashes from their forehead as a symbolic gesture. That said, it is virtually impossible for the sign ...

The following part of the exhibition is devoted to the most universal sign of Christian identity – the cross, the theological symbol Christians consider not as ...

The crucifix is surrounded by symmetrically positioned symbols 3 of the respective'14 stations of the cross. In the particular embodiment of the invention shown ...

This archangel is represented as a defender of the faith, holding the cross, symbol of Christ. Contrapposto is a technique that creates dynamism and ...