The presence of God is so intoxicating that when he comes upon an individual one loses sense of everything else around them and are lost in the ecstasy of his presence. Though the presence is so ...

The earliest Christians believed that Christ, although no longer present in the flesh, remained among them. Many words described this presence, but one of the most common was Spirit. New Testament ...

Today we commemorate the sending forth of the Holy Spirit to the first Christians, as promised by Christ. The Lord had gone up to heaven. But He promised the disciples that He would not leave them ...

In Colossians 2, Paul shares, with every believer, a profound fact: "... in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority” (vs. 10). When Paul speaks of the ...

The great celebration of Pentecost is, of all our liturgical feasts, the solemnity most focused on the Holy Spirit. And yet, the profundity of what it is we believe and celebrate about the Holy Spirit ...

The older I become the more I value the gift of a person’s presence instead of a tangible gift that is unwrapped, and then so many times forgotten. As I visit my 93-year-old mother, I hear her say in ...

In this Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019 photo, Rev. Mark Stelzer, administrator of St. Jerome’s Parish, in Holyoke, Mass., opens doors to the Catholic church before offering Mass. (Credit: AP Photo/Steven ...

The work of the Holy Spirit not only pervades the Scriptures from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22, but extends to every aspect of divine creation. Abraham Kuyper, the great Dutch theologian, summarized the ...

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 ...