As Christians, our prayers are directed to the Father in the Son. We need to understand the power of the Son’s name and frequently invoke it. Our prayer, however, does not end with the Father and the ...

To be gentle is often equated with being passive, fragile, or easily overlooked - a liability rather than a virtue. But the ...

While many Christians are accustomed to praying to the Father and to the Son, they are not as familiar or comfortable with praying to the Holy Spirit. The Spirit can seem very elusive, but he doesn’t ...

Traditional language about Christian spiritual formation has long been shaped by the impulse to imitate Jesus, a call we hear ringing in Paul’s exhortation to “be imitators of me, as I am of Christ” ...

The Holy Spirit has no face, but he does have a gaze. We can warm to, and benefit from, images of Christ. But remember, these are all creations of the imagination, whether they come from Michelangelo ...

We talk about how we never want to be lukewarm “In Christ.” We know that disgusts Jesus. In Revelation, it says He will spew us out of His mouth. It makes me think He wants to vomit. You see when we ...

Say “Holy Spirit,” and most imagine a dove or tongues of fire gently descending. But the Celts envisioned something wilder: a goose in flight—honking across the sky, untamed and impossible to ignore.

Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass for the solemnity of Pentecost in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday with international pilgrims belonging to new Church movements, associations, and communities celebrating ...

Pope Leo XIV greets a child from the popemobile as he prepares to lead a Pentecost prayer vigil in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 7 with participants in the Jubilee of Ecclesial Movements, ...