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 ...

There are seven gifts of the Holy Spirit: Understanding, Knowledge, Wisdom, Counsel, Piety, Fear and Fortitude. Many of us learned this list in our school days; some of us can still recite it from ...

We can find many types or symbols of the sacraments in the Old and New Testaments, but one passage that does lay out all seven sacraments ... pours down the gifts of the Holy Spirit on us and ...

The seven gifts mentioned by Isaiah – wisdom ... is the reason why oil was adopted as a liturgical and biblical symbol to express the action of the Holy Spirit, "who consecrates and permeates ...

Quick, name the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. I’ll wait if you have to Google it. To be honest, I can’t name them by memory either, and I have to teach them every year to a group of eighth ...

Vatican City, Oct 1, 2014 / 00:41 am Pope Francis dedicated his weekly general audience to the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, saying that rather than making us better than others, they commission ...

Over the years, the Christmas tree has become a symbol of Christ as the "tree of life." Through the birth of Jesus, believers have been given God's gifts ... for the Holy Spirit, and is a reminder ...