As I mentioned in my last column, I'm focusing a series of columns on the Holy Spirit over the next few weeks. Next I want to invite us to consider how and where we are to find the divine presence ...

A bird or a flame. Traditionally, these are the most common images used as metaphors for the Holy Spirit. The ornithological metaphor is usually traced back to Luke 3:22 when, at Jesus' baptism by ...

I finally got an air conditioner in my first car, a lime green Buick Skylark with a dark green vinyl top that covered ... Then God sent the winds of the Holy Spirit, which “filled the whole ...

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 ...

The Holy Spirit might be called the “faceless God,” though we do not say that because it denigrates. We see the face as the portal to the soul, even if we sometimes fail to read what truly ...