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 ...

The service always includes one or more psalms. These ancient prayers, taken from the Old Testament, reflect the full range ...

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The Holy Spirit—one of the persons of the Trinity, referred to as “God” in Acts 5:3-4—has many other names and titles. Most of them indicate an aspect of His function in, or ministry through, the ...

VATICAN CITY – In a moment bathed in the golden light of the Sistine Chapel, as Michelangelo’s frescoes gazed down in solemn silence, the Holy Spirit descended upon the College of Cardinals. And the ...

Christians today yearn to develop their spiritual lives, however we can sometimes lack a knowledge of or close relationship with the Holy Spirit. Tyler Staton, in his book The Familiar Stranger, calls ...

Mariah Witmer had two hits and drove to runs across to lead the Holy Spirit offense, as the Spartans bested host Ocean City, 5-4, to end a three-game losing streak. Madison Berry also had two hits ...

In the Old Testament, God confounded human language to halt prideful ambition. But in Acts 2, when the Holy Spirit descended, language became the tool of unity once again. “Now what was divided in the ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Invoking the help of the Holy Spirit and recognizing that millions of people all over the world were praying for them, 133 cardinals entered the Sistine Chapel with a ...

Invoking the help of the Holy Spirit and recognizing that millions of people all over the world were praying for them, 133 cardinals entered the Sistine Chapel with a singular goal: to elect “a worthy ...

There’s a long history of hate groups using new technologies to spread their message. In the 1930s, it was radio. In the 2010s, it was social media. In 2025, it ...