Jesus invites everyone to repent and to turn swords into plowshares and missiles into factories and homes, the papal preacher said during the Good Friday service at the Vatican.

Jesus invites everyone to repent and to turn swords into plowshares and missiles into factories and homes, the papal preacher said. “This year we celebrate Easter not to the joyful sound of ...

Reader: Then, while [Jesus] was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, arrived, accompanied by a crowd with swords and clubs, who had come from the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders.

Jesus said to the disciples, the one who has no sword must sell his cloak and buy one." "The disciples said, see, Lord here are two swords." Jesus replied, it is enough" (Luke 23, 35-38).

Rome claimed Caesar as both god and man, ruling by the sword. Jesus, the true God-man, conquered not through violence but by laying down His life (Isaiah 40:10–11). 4.

Jesus, the Light of the world. In keeping with the Law of Moses that required parents to offer their first-born male forty days after his birth to the Lord (Lev. 12, Ex. 13), Mary and Joseph bring ...

During Lent, many people walk the Stations of the Cross as a way to draw closer to Christ on the road to Calvary. The 14 Stations begin with Jesus being condemned to death and end with his burial.

ROME — Jesus invites everyone to repent and to turn swords into plowshares and missiles into factories and homes, the papal preacher said. “This year we celebrate Easter not to the joyful ...