Merry Christmas 2016!!! Perhaps my interest in genealogy began in my childhood Sunday School class when we read the remarkable story of the virgin birth of Jesus, the Messiah, in the King James ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the Christmas Eve vigil Mass, ask your pastor to read all 25 verses in Matthew's Gospel rather than using the shorter form that skips over the genealogy. I know proclaiming Matthew's genealogy can ...

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 ...

The genealogy with which Mathew's gospel begins has a significant role in equipping the reader to understand Matthew's story of Jesus. It serves to place the story of Jesus firmly within the story of ...

“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 ...

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 ...