In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist. There are a ...

To give a proper perspective on the New Covenant sacrament of reconciliation instituted by Christ, we will explore the Old Testament prefiguration of this sacrament. In the next column ...

However, God the Father, who knows how to teach, prepared us to understand baptism through foreshadowing and prophecy in the Old Testament. As the Fathers of the church taught, the figures of ...

The Old Testament books are grouped in the following ... to the order of events in time which they narrate (Genesis to Esther); 2) Didactic or sapiential or moral books, which are so called ...

Specifically we do not agree on the Old Testament (OT) canon - the list of ... I and II Maccabees - plus sections of Esther and Daniel which are absent from the Protestant OT.

The early church recognised all but one of the current Books of the Bible – 39 Old Testament and later 27 New Testament ... all these from across the Christian world remains a hallmark. Gutenberg’s ...

During a choir practice, the person-in-charge was taking attendance and called out ‘Esther’. Four heads turned and one asked, “which Esther?”. Esther was such a common name during my time that there ...

This idea of the salvation process is picked up throughout the Scriptures and one such scenario is associated with Esther. The happy Jewish Purim celebration acknowledges the story of Esther and how ...