Monthly Archives: September 2021

What do we really know about Sheol, Hades, and Gehenna? Part 1: Sheol

Part 1: Sheol Sheol is the Old Testament Hebrew word for death or the underworld. The word sheol appears 63 times, with the vast majority of those being in Psalms, Isaiah, Proverbs, and Job. Trying to figure out what the various Old Testament writers believed about sheol is complicated to say the least. How sheol…

Why do priests wear different color vestments?

The following article was written by Philip Kosloski and published on https://aleteia.org on 17 December 2017: Each color has a unique meaning that points beyond itself. Throughout the Church’s liturgical year, priests wear several different color vestments. The colors are not arbitrary, but reflect a deeper meaning that is meant to point us to a…