Jesus had a family tree. Do you know yours? A reflection for the Tuesday of the Third Week of Advent. “Zadok became the father of Achim, Achim the father of Eliud, Eliud the father of Eleazar. Eleazar ...
At the Christmas Vigil Mass, we take a journey through salvation history to recall once again the great gift that is the coming of Christ in the flesh. Saint Matthew, in his attempts to demonstrate ...
One can gather the importance of genealogy to religion and history by learning of the genealogy of Jesus as recorded in the book of Matthew in the Bible. While we know Jesus was one of the Trinity, he ...
In this month of holiday cheer, centered on the celebration of the birth of Christ, have you ever thought about Jesus’ family tree? Of course, Christians believe that Jesus was born to a virgin, ...
It’s okay that most of us want to skip through the genealogy of Jesus—but we should still read it. In the first episode of the twentieth season of The Simpsons, Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus (Matt. 1:1 ...
DOES Jesus have a secret line of descendants who are living today? It's an oddly appealing idea. We tend to think of ancestry in terms of bloodlines, in which some individuals are descended from ...
Merry Christmas 2016!!! Perhaps my interest in genealogy began in my childhood Sunday School class when we read the remarkable story of the virgin birth of Jesus, the Messiah, in the King James ...