A new restaurant opens, so we eat dinner or lunch there once or twice a week for several weeks. Finally, we get enough! We watch a particular program on television until one evening we decide to watch ...

Perhaps a sailing analogy will help clear up the confusion. Paul tells us to “be filled with the Spirit” (Eph. 5:18), and we all nod approvingly. It sounds like the sort of thing we should do. But ...

COMMENTARY: The Holy Spirit’s role in our lives, whether we are at the Synod on Synodality, at home or at work, is to remind us of our mission, which is to conform ourselves to Christ. Pope Francis ...

My sister asked this question in a letter to me back when she prepared for Confirmation twenty-four years ago. The question seized my imagination, but I knew my own experience to be insufficient as an ...

We talk about how we never want to be lukewarm “In Christ.” We know that disgusts Jesus. In Revelation, it says He will spew us out of His mouth. It makes me think He wants to vomit. You see when we ...

The Spirit makes us see everything in a new way, with the eyes of Jesus. The Spirit himself reminds us of this, because he is the memory of God, the one who brings to our minds all that Jesus has said ...

Earlier this week, I came across something in one of the commentaries I was reading about the Scriptures for this Sunday -- a story about the great theologian, Avery Dulles. He died a few years ago, ...

A. The Holy Ghost appeared at times under the form of a dove, and again under the form of tongues of fire; for, being a pure spirit without a body, He can take any form. Q. 422. Is the Holy Ghost ...