The 7 Last Words and the Nicene Creed: ‘Father, Into Your Hands I Commend My Spirit’
The sixth word Christ utters from the cross brings us to the death of the Lord Jesus, crucified for our sake.
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The 7 Last Words and the Nicene Creed: ‘I Thirst’
COMMENTARY: The fifth word from the cross points to Christ’s real bodily suffering — and his divine thirst for our salvation — as foretold in Scripture and confessed in the Creed.
The 7 Last Words and the Nicene Creed: ‘My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?’
COMMENTARY: The fourth of Christ’s ‘Seven Last Words From the Cross’ reflects the mystery at the heart of the Nicene Creed — a suffering God who prays Psalm 22 and transforms our dereliction into redemption.
The 7 Seven Last Words and the Nicene Creed: ‘Behold, Your Son’; ‘Behold, Your Mother’
COMMENTARY: The third of Christ’s ‘Seven Last Words From the Cross’ reveals the feminine and maternal dimension of the mystery of salvation.
The 7 Seven Last Words and the Nicene Creed: ‘Today You Will Be With Me in Paradise’
God From God, Light From Light, True God From True God
The Art of Holy Week
The Register presents five of Tissot’s works that reflect Christ’s path, with reflections.
The 7 Last Words of Christ and the Nicene Creed: ‘Father, Forgive Them, for They Know Not What They Do’
You have to draw close to hear the words, for a crucified man struggles to speak, his lungs crushed under the pressure of his own weight, even as his body screams to him in pain.
The 1,700-Year Quest for a Common Easter
COMMENTARY: The Council of Nicaea gave Christianity more than a creed — it gave the Church a way to calculate Easter. But unity around the great feast of the Resurrection remains incomplete.
What Theodore McCarrick Taught Us About Clerical Corruption
COMMENTARY: The Temple needed to be cleansed in the time of Caiaphas. It still does. It always will.
Notre Dame’s Presidential Commencement ‘Tradition’ More Nuanced Than Some Assume
COMMENTARY: Since the first presidential speaker at spring commencement in 1960, seven of the 12 presidents in office have not been invited to Notre Dame’s commencement.
