It was Easter Sunday, 1976. During a Church service, I had a life-changing spiritual experience. I received Jesus Christ into my heart as Lord and Savior. Following this, I was filled with the Holy ...

Today we commemorate the sending forth of the Holy Spirit to the first Christians, as promised by Christ. The Lord had gone up to heaven. But He promised the disciples that He would not leave them ...

In Colossians 2, Paul shares, with every believer, a profound fact: "... in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority” (vs. 10). When Paul speaks of the ...

The great celebration of Pentecost is, of all our liturgical feasts, the solemnity most focused on the Holy Spirit. And yet, the profundity of what it is we believe and celebrate about the Holy Spirit ...

I grew up in Massachusetts. Our state was the birthplace of the Revolutionary War when the colonists rose up and overthrew the oppressive British government. Eventually a new nation was born. The ...

In this Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019 photo, Rev. Mark Stelzer, administrator of St. Jerome’s Parish, in Holyoke, Mass., opens doors to the Catholic church before offering Mass. (Credit: AP Photo/Steven ...

In times of trouble, Christians must be like the disciples in the boat on the stormy sea, calling out to Jesus and waking him up, Pope Francis said. "We must rouse Christ in our hearts, and only then ...

The effectiveness of our theological instruction depends ultimately on the presence and activity of the Holy Spirit. I have been a professor in the theology department at Whitworth University for the ...

The story is told about a little boy who wanted to bring inside the house his new bike, but his mother said “no,” telling him that the Holy Spirit will be watching his bike outside, so no need to ...