1.) OLD ROMAN LECTIONARY Introit (Wisdom 11:24, 25, 27; Psalm 56:2 [57:1]) You have mercy upon all, O Lord, and loathe nothing that you have...

Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima Sundays . Doubtless these names are unfamiliar to many of us born after the 1970 reforms to the ...

On the same vein as the Popular (Mis)Depictions of Bible Stories series of posts, allow me to introduce the popular conception of Tolkien...

1.) Jesus' name was Jesus H. Christ. Jesus' real name was NOT Jesus H. Christ, despite what many swearers and popular culture might ...

BIOGRAPHY St. Paulo Miki (パウロ三木) was born in Settsu Province into a rich family, son of the military leader Miki Handayu (三木半太夫). His fathe...

Hic accipit corpus in manibus dicat. Panem coelestem accipiam, et nomen Domini invocabo. Hic ter tundat pectus suum. Domine, non sum dignu...

1.) OLD ROMAN LECTIONARY (John 1:29-34) At that time, John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, " Behold the Lamb of God who takes awa...

1.) The Tablets of the Law are semi-flat rounded off rectangles. While it had become common to depict the Tablets of the Law as rounded off ...

1.) ROMAN LECTIONARY (Matthew 2:1-12) After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, magi from the East came ...

Sometimes, popular belief and iconography can influence our minds on how we read the Bible (admittedly one of the least descriptive ancient ...