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Pentecost is the perfect time to pause and reflect on the Holy Spirit, perhaps the most mysterious Person of the Triune God.

With the help of the Holy Spirit, believers are able to revive the memory of Jesus as a living and current presence ...

Don’t you wish you had an expensive car like this?” The boy answered: “I wish I had a brother like yours.” —————- Pentecost reminds us of the generosity and love of our Brother and Lord Jesus Christ, ...

It is an expression of the desire of the faithful to receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit Most often prayed between Ascension and Pentecost, it can be prayed at any time of the year. The prayer ...

In order to be properly disposed to receive communion ... We pray that our common baptism and the action of the Holy Spirit in this Eucharist will draw us closer to one another and begin to ...

On June 15, the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, men and women scuttled through the cramped kitchen of the St. Anthony ...

The word Pentecost comes from the Greek pentēkostē, meaning "fiftieth." It commemorates the moment when Christ, having risen and ascended, fulfilled his promise by sending the Holy Spirit upon the ...

Mt 3:16); Jesus who, in the Upper Room, breathes on the disciples and says: ‘Receive the Holy Spirit’ (Jn 20:22), just as in the beginning God breathed His breath on Adam (cf. Gen 2:7).