At the beginning of his Gospel, Matthew the apostle shows that Jesus of Nazareth possessed the proper pedigree to be the promised Messiah. Specifically, he presents evidence that Joseph, Jesus’ father ...

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 ...

The events of Jesus’ birth were foretold in many prophecies in the Old Testament. A messiah was promised from the lineage of Abraham, Isaac, Judah, Jesse, and David. The prophecies came to pass as ...

The past few weeks we’ve been learning how God used all types of people in the lineage of Jesus to bring him into the world through his birth. We saw how God used unknowns as well as wealthy people.

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 ...

“The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham” (Matt 1:1). Gen 49:2, 8-10; Matt 1:1-17 Matthew begins his Gospel by establishing that Jesus is the descendent of ...

Look into the past of one of history's most beloved religious figures to learn more about his ancestors and origins. TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, January 26, 2023 ...

I always wonder what the priest is going to do at Mass on the third Tuesday of Advent. On this day, every priest is faced with a most daunting Advent task: to preach on the long genealogy of Jesus at ...

There’s a passage of Scripture that I had never preached on or led a Bible study on until recently, because I thought it was uninteresting, unhelpful and unimportant. Its Jesus’ genealogy from Matthew ...