The Bible says very little about Jesus Christ’s physical traits ... While we have no solid evidence of what the real face of Jesus looked like, he probably did not resemble the paintings ...

As in all things, when we read a pas-sage presented to us in the Lectionary from the holy Gospel, we need to place it into ...

He had no form or comeliness that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from ...

The Gospel reading presented to us for the First Sunday of Lent is rather familiar to all of us — Our Lord’s temptation in ...