To be gentle is often equated with being passive, fragile, or easily overlooked - a liability rather than a virtue. But the ...
Hockey player Billy Garaffa reflects on his experience after collapsing on the ice and how he says seeing God, the Holy ...
Preaching is more than lecturing. It is more than exhortation. It brings Christ home to the hearts of men and confronts them with his living grace and power. It is not only that Christ is discussed—it ...
Pope Francis during his general audience at St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday said all evangelizing activity depends on the Holy Spirit and not on “pastoral initiatives promoted by us.” Continuing his ...
The inner life of God is one of family. God is not solitude, but a community of persons. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit show us the inner, relational dynamism of the divine nature. It was in the ...
As I mentioned in my last column, I'm focusing a series of columns on the Holy Spirit over the next few weeks. Next I want to invite us to consider how and where we are to find the divine presence of ...
How the Trinity is reshaping my preaching. Like many young pastors, I spent my early years of ministry torturing audiences through endless experiments with my preaching. I had been to seminary, ...
What the Catechism of the Catholic Church says on "The Trinity:" 232. "Christians are baptized 'in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit' [Mt 28:19.] Before receiving the ...
The older I become the more I value the gift of a person’s presence instead of a tangible gift that is unwrapped, and then so many times forgotten. As I visit my 93-year-old mother, I hear her say in ...
For a majority of Christians, the Holy Spirit is a third of the Trinity, and memorizing verses about the spirit of God are encouraged to do. "The Triune God", also known as the Father, Son, and the ...