Christ Pantocrator means “all-powerful or Almighty Christ.” The Pantocrator image, which typically depicts Christ seated in enthroned glory, was (and is) especially popular in the Byzantine icon ...

Providentially, 50 years after Pope Pius XII’s statement, an icon of Mary, Virgin Mother of the Holy Vine, was blessed and venerated to inspire a Marian Eucharistic spirituality according to ...

Dr. Mark Mirvalle, a professor of theology at Ave Maria University in Florida, explains why Mary, the mother of Jesus is an important figure during the Advent and Christmas seasons.

I painted a grand icon mural for St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco of 60 oversized saints led in a dance by an olive-skinned Christ. I have painted numerous icons of Black ...

Many of the icons show Mary as similar to fire. Mary speaks from mountains, plains and deserts—in suffering and in hope. In one icon Mary stands in the presence of the angel Gabriel with a Hebrew text ...

The first covers the period from the earliest mention of Mary in the Gospels and Apo-crypha to her designation as Theotokos or God-Bearer (Mother of God in the West) at the Council of Ephesus in 431.

Greek icon of the Virgin Mary, Mother of God ... mother of God with a mother’s “choice” to have an abortion. “By explicitly seeking definitive consent from Mary to conceive of Christ, God ...

The letters in the halo are Ὁ ὬΝ, which is shorthand in Greek for 'I Am.' The letters are used in icons only in connection with Jesus Christ, the Son of God," a Nov. 24 university statement read.

Pope Francis began the new year by urging his fellow Catholics to entrust 2024 to the Mother of God, who “knows our needs” and always intercedes to “make grace overflow in our lives.” ...

(RNS) — Mother Mary P. Patterson, who was the widow of a Church of God in Christ presiding bishop and became known for her efforts to preserve the history of the historically Black Pentecostal ...

Since the Roman Calendar Reform of 1969, the Church observes Jan. 1 as the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. This is not, however, an observance pulled out of whole cloth.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy presented Pope Leo XIV with an icon of the Mother of God with the Infant as a symbol of life. "For many peoples, the image of a mother with a child is a symbol ...