Baptism: Branded with Fire

“John answered them all, “I baptize you with water. But one who is more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.”  Luke 3:16 “Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom

The Feast of St Lawrence, the Martyr and Deacon of Rome

I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. -John 12:24 The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.  -Tertullian in his work Apologeticus, Chapter 50. Yesterday was the Feast of

Jesus without the Church?

Where in the Bible do you see Jesus personally endorsing Popes, Priests, and Bishops? Doesn’t Jesus speak against organized religion and the traditions of men? Isn’t the Catholic Church a human invention and a distortion of what Jesus started? Many non-Christians and more and more Protestant Christians are claiming to follow a Jesus who has