It is also from this that the present feast is called "Theophany," that is, the divine manifestation, God's appearance among men. On this venerable day the sacred mystery of Christian baptism was ...

It commemorates the Theophany, or the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River. The celebration of the Feast of Theophany dates far back in Orthodox history, Hyatt said. “It’s a very ancient feast ...

According to Jewish tradition, the most common bushes in the area of the desert around Mount Horeb were bramble bushes. The assumption of Jewish historians was ...

And the reason for this is in the greatest of the gift that the Lord gives us through the Church. Giving Theophany water to the faithful. Photo: Anton Pospelov/Pravoslavie.ru Many people are not very ...

Feast of the Holy Theophany of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ Feast of the Holy Theophany of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ Christ’s baptism in the Jordan was “theophany,” a manifestation ...

My teacher, Frank Moore Cross, wrote: The abrupt refusal of Yahweh to appear as in the traditional theophany at Sinai marked the beginning of a new era in his mode of self-disclosure. And Samuel ...

What did Paul have to say about the resurrection, Geoffrey Turner asks (New Blackfriars, April 1977), as he goes on to say that I have suggested that “Paul had a simple spiritual experience”. Well, if ...

This would include the preacher who treated Joseph’s own theophany with “great contempt, saying it was all of the devil, that there were no such things as visions or revelations in these days ...

In his violent, carnal visions, sparks of divinity may glow even from within the blackest confines of our fallen reality.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - A project that started in 2021 reached a big milestone Sunday. In downtown South Bend, the former ...