They see God’s love, mercy, and forgiveness – all very real – and think heaven is a lock. I thought maybe we should take a ...

A Homily for the Sixth Sunday of Easter. Acts 8: 5-8, 14-17 1 Peter 3: 15-18 John 14: 15-21. The Holy Spirit always surprises us. That is because the Spirit is like a possum.

July 23, 2023, Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Sunday’s readings suggest that the kingdom of heaven relies entirely on God’s initiative. The manner in which we respond to this reality ...

Homilies must be prepared with the help of the Holy Spirit, be shorter than 10 minutes and put the spotlight on the Lord, not oneself, Pope Francis said.

In his homily, Pope Francis explained how the Holy Spirit helps us to overcome sinful passions, like impurity or envy, and then gently plants the seeds of virtue and helps them to grow.

The Rev. Perry Cherubini, the Holy Spirit president and a pastor at Saint Joseph Church in Sea Isle City, delivered the homily. He emphasized the growth of Holy Spirit since its 1922 founding in ...

More churches across the U.S. are embracing the use of Artificial Intelligence in their ministries, but pastors have stopped short of using the technology to prepare their sermons, data from the ...

As Re noted in his homily, the Holy Spirit is believed to lend itself to aiding their choices and guiding their consciences. Whether the electors decide to listen and obey will be their choice.

The Holy Spirit within Elaw enabled her to speak hard truths to people considered educated and wealthy—people who had no doubt heard many more-refined sermons from people who gone to seminary ...

As Re noted in his homily, the Holy Spirit is believed to lend itself to aiding their choices and guiding their conscience. Whether the electors decide to listen and obey will be their choice.

Priests "anointed" by the Holy Spirit should be authentic agents of harmony rather than "instruments of division," Pope Francis said. Celebrating the chrism Mass in St. Peter's Basilica April 6 ...

The Holy Spirit was at the centre of Christian life, and the Church at that time had little accommodation with official authority or responsible elders, organizational structure or formality. In the ...