Corinth is a major industrial city in Greece, with a canal that splits northern and southern Greece and joins the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas. It has one of the largest oil refining industrial complexes in Europe. It was important in Gospel times, and has a history going back at least 700 years before that. There is a fascinating […]
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The Judaism of Jesus’ time existed in two very different forms. There was the Judaism of Jerusalem with the temple, the sacrifices, and all the surrounding paraphernalia of markets, money changers, pilgrim hostels, etc. And there was the Judaism of the synagogue, often tiny buildings in remote places where the reading of scripture was a
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We spoke last week of how the Baptism of the Lord was a “second Epiphany” in Luke’s telling. This week we have… a third Epiphany!? All the gospels, as we noted, include the story of Jesus’ baptism. But John presents it as opportunity for John the Baptist to testify to the significance of Jesus (Jn
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Today is the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. This Feast lies at the transition from our Christmas season, focused on the Nativity, to the rest of our Liturgical year, based around the adult life of Jesus. The baptism of Jesus obviously links to the grown man – it occurs as Jesus is about
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Today we celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany. Which is a little confusing since you might remember there are supposed to be twelve days of Christmas, the last being the Epiphany on January 6. But in some parts of the world, including the US, the feast gets moved to the nearest Sunday. Since many people
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