Many people have at least a mental image of Jesus — do you? Years ago I heard a homily in which the priest suggested we contemplate a picture of Jesus after receiving the Eucharist, as a way to develop a…

Here is Jesus preparing the world for the Eucharist: Then the Jews fell to disputing with one another, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?  Whereupon Jesus said to them, Believe me when I tell you this;…

“God had planted a garden of delight, in which he now placed the man he had formed. Here, at the bidding of the Lord God, the soil produced all such trees as charm the eye and satisfy the taste; and…

This painting by William Blake depicts the time Job got a little talking-to from God: “Then, from the midst of a whirlwind, the Lord gave Job his answer: Here is one that must ever be clouding the truth of things…

“Sometimes he would send them chieftains of their own, to rescue them from the invader’s power, but even to these they would not listen; still they would play the wanton, and worship alien gods; so quick were they to forsake…