I don’t want kids whisked through the sacrament. The gift of the Holy Spirit becomes more meaningful at confirmation. I challenge them to be a light to the world, and I felt a need to emphasize it.

There’s no metaphysical gift from above ... personal presence of the Holy Spirit in the work of art-making. The Spirit is merely experienced as a nebulous and distant reality or, at worst ...

The gifts of the Holy Spirit that the Apostle Paul enumerated in 1 Corinthians (12:4-11) can be considered psychic powers. In the Acts of the Apostles, St. Paul said: “Now there are varieties of ...

VATICAN CITY — During his general audience this week, Pope Francis began a new catechesis on the gifts of the Holy Spirit, drawing specific attention to wisdom and noting that it illuminates ...

In celebrating the great solemnity of Pentecost today, the church turns her mind to consider perhaps the most mysterious, and ...

Just as the nation's founders relied on God's providence, so too must all those serving in the U.S. legal profession and government today depend on the gifts of the Holy Spirit, said the homilist ...

Orozco’s Epic Murals, the Art of Flowers ... O.P., writes in his introduction to a new English edition of The Gifts of the Holy Spirit by John of St. Thomas, published by Cluny Media.

"The first gift of every Christian existence is the Holy Spirit," he said. It is the key, essential gift because without the Holy Spirit, "there is no relationship with Christ and with the Father." ...

The priest told Charles to leave me alone, that I had the gift of the Holy Spirit. Charles than said to me, ‘if the gift is good, it will stay. If it isn’t, it will rot.’ It never rotted ...