I . Son of Man, grace, peace and merry Christmas to you from God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit .
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never ...
The Holy Spirit is present throughout the Nativity story. So why is the third person of the Trinity absent from our Christmas ...
How the Trinity is reshaping my preaching. Like many young pastors, I spent my early years of ministry torturing audiences through endless experiments with my preaching. I had been to seminary, ...
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 ...
If I were a betting man, I’d wager that the trope you most likely heard last Sunday was some variant of “Happy birthday!” Then you were probably told that Pentecost is the birthday of the Church. In ...
What the Catechism of the Catholic Church says on "The Trinity:" 232. "Christians are baptized 'in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit' [Mt 28:19.] Before receiving the ...
The man was righteous and devout. He prayed fervently and expectantly for Israel’s rescue. The Holy Spirit was on him. If ...
God is love,” St. John writes in his first letter. Such a simple phrase, and yet plumbless in its depths. Father Romano Guardini, in his book “The Lord,” reflected that to understand the kind of love ...
We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth. … We believe in One Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God … of one Being with the Father … [who] was made man … he ...
2. When was the word first used? The first surviving use of the term (there may have been earlier uses that are now lost) was about 170 A.D. by Theophilus of Antioch, who wrote: “In like manner also ...