I don’t want kids whisked through the sacrament. The gift of the Holy Spirit becomes more meaningful at confirmation. I challenge them to be a light to the world, and I felt a need to emphasize it.

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 ...

The second thing the Holy Spirit wants to do in us is give us SPIRITUAL GIFTS. The gifts of the Spirit are laid out in 1 Corinthians 12:8-11 and speak to things such as miraculous healing ...

In confirmation, the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are increased within a soul: wisdom, understanding, knowledge, counsel, fortitude, piety and fear of the Lord. Fresco of Pentecost in Church of ...

Just as the nation's founders relied on God's providence, so too must all those serving in the U.S. legal profession and government today depend on the gifts of the Holy Spirit, said the homilist ...

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

In celebrating the great solemnity of Pentecost today, the church turns her mind to consider perhaps the most mysterious, and ...

God caused a visible outpouring of the Holy Spirit. (Acts ch. 2 ) The disciples of Jesus received power and gifts to continue the work of the kingdom of God, which was, in part, to preach the ...

It is often lamented that the Holy Spirit is ... natural and spiritual gift in preachers who have been used of God? The endowment of power and anointing of the Spirit sounds so “natural”!

She envisions the Holy Trinity as "table, food and waiter," in which the Spirit is the one who serves us the Word who is our food — a great eucharistic image. One of the gifts of Dreyer's study ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Women meeting in Rome this week to promote female leadership in the Catholic Church are challenging the hierarchy ... idea of God and the Holy Spirit as neither male ...