Joy is a grace and a gift of the Holy Spirit, not just positive emotions ... Hannah Brockhaus is Catholic News Agency’s senior Vatican correspondent. After growing up in Omaha, Nebraska, she ...

Pope Francis encouraged Christians to call on the Holy Spirit more often when facing difficulties ... Upon you and your families, I invoke the joy and peace of Christ. God bless you.” ...

The Holy Spirit's movement in our lives, and in the world, is often elusive, not readily discerned." They note that: The Holy Spirit meets us where we are. In our experiences of joy and serenity ...

And with that he breathed on them and said: "Receive the Holy Spirit ... experiences "joy that a child is born into the world" (John 16:21). For the last several years, the Catholic church ...

And the Mother, the Daughter and the Holy Spirit.” A 2022 survey of 17,200 women in 104 countries by the international forum Catholic Women Speak found that two-thirds of women in the church ...

The Catechism of the Catholic Church describes how confirmation “gives us a special strength of the Holy Spirit to spread and ... distinguished by human warmth, joy, meekness and gentleness.

"The Holy Spirit continues ... with the joy of a new leader, a new pope. For the church and for the world … a sign of God's living presence all over the world," he said. Catholic Community ...