"There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished" (Luke 12:50). Rom 6:19-23; Luke 12:49-53 In today's Gospel, Jesus describes the Good News as a ...

“I have come to set the world on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing.” Eph 3:14-21; Luke 12:49-53 Jesus speaks of a “baptism of fire” he must endure and how he wishes it were over. The phrase ...

When Luci Baines Johnson celebrated her 18th birthday by entering the Roman Catholic Church a fortnight ago, Father James Montgomery capped the ceremony by pouring water on her forehead and saying: ...

Baptized by fire -- that's how potters describe the process whereby the stuff of the earth is turned into beautiful ceramic objects. Fire does the work, especially inside a wood-fired kiln where ...

Luke’s Gospel has been called the most beautiful book ever written. It contains most of what has become the Christmas story, as well as the sermon on the plain, the parables of the good Samaritan and ...