Pentecost rejects a tepid Christian life. The Lord Jesus said to the apostles, “I have come to cast a fire on the earth” ...

The Holy Spirit "writes in our hearts before all else the commandment of love that the Lord has made the center and summit of everything,” the pope said.

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for the Solemnity of Pentecost in St. Peter's Square on June 8, 2025. In his homily, he emphasized the significance of the Holy Spirit in the life of a Christian. (photo: ...

In this way, Christ himself is the new wine. Nevertheless, Pentecost was not the first instance a crowd criticized the Eucharist. Instead of scoffing, many disciples “murmured” and “drew back and no ...

We read in the Acts of the Apostles, when the day of Pentecost had come, they were together in one place. Suddenly there came ...

The same proves true at Pentecost. The scoffing reinforces the Apostles’ role — and those who receive the Holy Spirit — as conduits of grace. They are the Word on fire. And this “new wine ...

But the Holy Spirit has no face. Like God the Father, he is pure spirit, absolute intellect. The flames of fire or the dove wings, which we call to mind on his behalf, do not emotionally ignite ...

The word Pentecost comes from the Greek pentēkostē, meaning "fiftieth." It commemorates the moment when Christ, having risen ...

When Nero (37-68) accused Christians of setting Rome on fire in 64, he was singling out as scapegoats a group of people whom the city's population no longer confused with Jews. Twenty years later ...