On "Preach," Anthony SooHoo, S.J., draws on unexpected images from Celtic Christianity in his homily for Pentecost, Year C.

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 ...

30 Through the Holy Spirit, Baptism is a bath that purifies ... is to be "a formation in the whole Christian life . . . during which the disciples will be joined to Christ their teacher.

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

During the baptism, "the Spirit descended like a dove ... "Even this event was symbolic and prophetic of the indwelling Holy Spirit that is available to believers in Christ." ...

Jesus’ instructions were to "baptise in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit", so these words are said during a baptism. Two pastors fully submerge a man during his believers’ baptism ...

He calls baptism “the blessing of cleansing and perfection,” the “foundation of our new life” and “regeneration from the Holy Spirit,” as well as “the key of the Kingdom of heaven ...

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 ...