The Seven Steps to Sanctification. How to Awaken the Gifts of the Holy Spirit Within You. By Walter Farrell, O.P., and Dominic Hughes, O.P. Sophia Institute Press, 2022 ...

Vatican City, Apr 30, 2014 / 10:49 am. Pope Francis explained that the Holy Spirit's gift of understanding allows Christians to obtain "intimacy with God" and helps them understand things "as God ...

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While the Holy Spirit is the biggest gift given during the sacrament, he brings a variety of others with him, Francis said, and listed the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit spoken of by the prophet ...

The gifts of the Holy Spirit are gifts for the whole of one’s life. And this book, The Gifts of the Holy Spirit , serves as something like a guidebook for a spirituality which is true — even ...

Daily Easter Reflections: Boldly they proclaimed the mighty acts of God. They urged repentance and the forgiveness of sins. They promised the gifts of the Spirit. They preached despite persecutions.

Another striking aspect of the Spirit’s power is what it produces in people. On Pentecost, those who experienced the Spirit’s indwelling spoke in “other tongues” (Acts 2:4).

Msgr. Roger Landry turned to 1997, when then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was asked on Bavarian television whether or not the Holy Spirit chooses the pope, and he answered: “I would not say so, in ...