Tracts
God & Jesus Christ
The Trinity, the divinity of Christ, and the great feasts of his life. 14 tracts.
Christmas: The Solemnity of the Nativity of Our Lord
Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world, and the Incarnation, when God became man to redeem us. It is a holy day of obligation. Its date and traditions rest on Christian foundations, not paganism.
Easter Sunday
Easter, the "solemnity of solemnities," commemorates Christ's victory over sin, death and the devil. It celebrates the paschal sacrifice of Calvary culminating in glory, and at the Easter Vigil converts are baptized and welcomed into full communion. It is a holy day of obligation.
God's Love for You
Everyone senses that something is wrong with the human race: we are all sinners, and on our own we cannot break free. But God is love. He sent his Son, who died and rose to save us, and he invites each of us to choose him by repenting, believing, being baptized, and joining the Church Christ founded.
Holy Week
Holy Week is the most sacred week of the Church's year. It runs from Palm Sunday through the Easter Triduum of Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday to the Easter Vigil, commemorating Christ's passion, death and resurrection.
Pentecost
Fifty days after Easter, Pentecost commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles and the Blessed Virgin Mary, empowering them to preach the gospel to the whole world. It concludes the Easter season and marks the Church's manifestation to the world and the start of her public mission.
The Ascension of the Lord
Forty days after Easter, the risen Christ ascended bodily into heaven in the sight of his apostles (Acts 1:9-11). The Ascension completes his earthly mission and begins his exaltation at the Father's right hand, where he intercedes for us as our eternal High Priest and from where he will return.
The Epiphany of the Lord
The Epiphany, also called Three Kings Day, celebrates the Magi's coming to worship the child Jesus and Christ's manifestation to the Gentiles as Savior of the world. Tradition also links it with the Lord's baptism and the wedding at Cana.
The Sacred Heart of Jesus
The Sacred Heart of Jesus is a symbol of Christ's immense love and mercy. Devotion to it focuses on his Heart, which exemplifies his redemptive suffering for the whole world. It grew from medieval roots and spread through Christ's revelations to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque.
What the Early Church Believed: Christ's Eternal Sonship
Some Evangelicals claim the second person of the Trinity became the Son only at the Incarnation. Scripture and the Church Fathers teach that he is the Son of God from all eternity, eternally begotten of the Father.
What the Early Church Believed: Filioque
The Western Church's Nicene Creed adds *filioque* ("and the Son"): the Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son. Scripture reveals this, and the Fathers, Latin and Greek, taught that the Spirit proceeds "from the Father and the Son" or "from the Father through the Son," which mean the same thing.
What the Early Church Believed: God Has No Body
Some groups, notably the Mormons and some in the Word Faith movement, say God the Father has a body. Scripture teaches that God is spirit, and the Church Fathers declared that God is an unchangeable, immaterial spirit with a simple nature that has no parts, so he cannot have a body.
What the Early Church Believed: One True God
The first Christians, like the Jews before them, were fiercely monotheistic and would rather die as martyrs than concede that any other gods exist. This comes directly from the Bible, and it contradicts groups such as the Mormons who teach a multitude of gods.
What the Early Church Believed: The Divinity of Christ
The New Testament shows Christ's divinity again and again: he made himself equal with God, applied God's name "I AM" to himself, was called "my Lord and my God," and bears God's titles "the First and the Last" and "the Alpha and the Omega." The early Church Fathers also recognized and firmly defended that Jesus Christ is God.
What the Early Church Believed: The Trinity
The doctrine of the Trinity is summed up in Jesus' command to baptize in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19). The earliest Christian writers understood this exactly as the Church does today: three divine persons who are one God.