For a majority of Christians, the Holy Spirit is a third of the Trinity, and memorizing verses about the spirit of God are encouraged to do. "The Triune God", also known as the Father, Son, and the ...

It would take Steven Spielberg to create an adequate depiction of the scene in today's first reading. Think about it, the whole community stood listening "attentively" for about six hours — and that ...

Pope Francis gives his blessing to visitors in St. Peter's Square at the end of his general audience at the Vatican June 12, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) Below is the text of Pope Francis’ weekly ...

We're celebrating one of the greatest feasts of the church year and all we have for evidence of it is a short account from the beginning of the Acts of the Apostles, also called the second volume of ...

What prepared the 120 believers, united in prayer, waiting upon the Lord as He had told them to do until the Day of Pentecost for such an awesome outpouring of the Holy Spirit? What were their lives ...

The Rev. Betty Hanna-Witherspoon, Ebenezer A.M.E. Church, Kansas City, Mo. I am tempted to choose Acts 2, in which the Holy Spirit comes with a “sound like the rush of a violent wind ... and divided ...

Light shines through the Holy Spirit window in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this file photo. (CNS photo by Nancy Wiechec) The church is slowly reviving a treasure of the past, the Pentecost ...