Of all the great Christian feasts, none, with the exception of Easter and perhaps Christmas, has been and is more widely celebrated than Pentecost. The oldest of our festivals, just the ...

This is confirmation season. While some of our candidates receive this great sacrament in the fall or winter, the vast ...

Next week, the Church celebrates Pentecost, one of the most important feast days of the year that concludes the Easter season and celebrates the beginning of the Church. Here's what you need to k ...

Archbishop Bernard Hebda said that Catholics must remember that God has a plan for them and the Catholic Church. This plan is ...

Mark says that after the baptism the Holy Spirit drove Jesus into the wilderness ... In this discourse, delivered in the upper room on the eve of the crucifixion, and recorded only by John ...

But in other ways they have resembled closely the modern charismatic experience dubbed “baptism in (or with, or of) the Holy Spirit ... ask that he might have a room by himself, and in ...

It’s not a coincidence that Pentecost took place in the same Upper Room where Jesus ... of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, something that reminds us of our baptism, when we, through water ...

Empowered and enlightened by the Holy Spirit ... gift of the Spirit in baptism and confirmation are called to develop a similar missionary impulse. "From the 'upper room' of this basilica ...

the Son and the Holy Spirit. Matthew 28:19 does not satisfy biblical rules of interpretation like two or three witnesses or emphatic emphasis. Let us look at the first baptism after the Great ...

The Holy Spirit is what gives power ... Francis also underlined that the apostles gathered in the upper room, together with Mary and other women, to pray with "perseverance." ...