In this month dedicated to the sacred heart of Jesus, as I file away a meditation for a most ancient novena for the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, I prepare for June 27, the last Friday of the ...

Christians celebrated the Feast of Pentecost, when we remember the coming of the Holy Spirit upon Jesus’ followers when he ...

The Rev Skip Heitzig, senior pastor of Calvary Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, delivered a passionate call for ...

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"In a divided and troubled world, the Holy Spirit teaches us to walk together in unity," the pope said as he joined an estimated 70,000 people for an evening prayer vigil in St. Peter's Square June 7.

Concerns about DEI are nothing new. Recently, I went looking for signs of such in the New Testament and found the book of ...

Beauty and justice are birthed from a sanctified imagination and lived out while walking with the Spirit. They are the soil ...

For instance, at almost exactly the time of the birth of Jesus (4-6 B.C.), some Jews became fed up with the Jewish King Herod ...

In the coming of the Holy Spirit, God sets us on fire to make us a kind of fire. In so doing, he purifies us and prepares us to meet him one day.

A. The gifts of the Holy Ghost are Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude, Knowledge, Piety, and Fear of the Lord. Q. 700. {178} Why do we receive the gift of Fear of the Lord? A.

For the second day of the Novena to the Holy Ghost, the prayer, verse, and meditation remind us that the fear of the Lord, the first of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, is the beginning of wisdom.