The Holy Spirit is the change which changes everything
“Come, O Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and enkindle within us the fire of your love.” That enkindling is the decisive and defining change that changes everything.
Does the Holy Spirit Speak Through the Bible?
The Holy Spirit leads the way, removing any obstacles in our walk with God ... The Holy Spirit, since the close of the 66 books of Scripture, does not inspire further Scripture but does continue to ...
Pentecost Sunday Celebrates the Holy Spirit
Vernacular” is a word I first heard a long time ago at St. Gabriel School in East Elmhurst, when one of the wonderful Sisters of Charity who taught there told us at the beginning of the prayers with ...
The Holy Spirit and the Renewal of All Things: Pneumatology in Paul and Jurgen Moltmann
This book sets out to change the starting point for theological conversation about the work of the Holy Spirit. Protestant theologians have associated the Spirit's work almost entirely with believers ...
What Pronoun Is Used for the Holy Spirit: He, She, or It?
Whichever way we choose to refer to God does not change God’s nature, and it is the same with the Holy Spirit. As long as we are in full understanding that the Holy Spirit is a person, a full and ...
What language does scripture use about the Holy Spirit?
It is quite common for people to make observations about the role or meaning of the Holy Spirit ... role for the Spirit separate from God (the Father) and Jesus; it is not possible to say that there ...
The Holy Spirit: God in Us
God’s presence with mankind has become more intimate—from a cloud of glory in the temple, to the incarnate Son of God living with men, to the indwelling presence of His Spirit. In other words, God the ...
Pentecost: The Descent of the Holy Spirit
And there appeared to them parted tongues as of fire, which settled upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in foreign tongues, even as the Holy Spirit ...
“The solemn coming of the Holy Spirit”
The solemn coming of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost was not an isolated event. There is hardly a page in the Acts of the Apostles where we fail to read about him and the action by which he guides, ...
The Holy Spirit’s Gifts
Therefore, the Lord has given each of us specific divinely empowered abilities called spiritual gifts to use in doing the work of Christ. We can’t choose for ourselves what our gift will be; this is ...