CCC, 437). After his baptism and confirmation, Jesus was said to be “filled with the Holy Spirit” (Luke 4:1). He is then tempted by the devil, again not unlike Adam in the Garden. After the ...

Are you seeing it? In the power of the Holy Spirit, and the name of Jesus we are made ONE with the Father. Jesus spoke about ...

The Gospels tell us that Jesus spent time in prayer. Usually, we hear this when something very significant in his life or ministry is going to happen. He goes on a 40-day retreat into the desert. He ...

I am excited to follow Jesus; I am excited to follow Jesus; no turning back; no turning back. The world behind me, the cross ...

Even as the Lord Jesus was promising to send the Holy Spirit upon his early Church, he exhorts his followers to pray to the Holy Spirit. The Catechism recalls: “Jesus insists on this petition to ...

"Even this event was symbolic and prophetic of the indwelling Holy Spirit that is available to believers in Christ." Jesus was baptized not due to any sin — "but to fulfill all righteousness ...

“In prayer the Holy Spirit unites us to the person of the only Son, in his glorified humanity, through which and in which our filial prayer unites us in the Church with the Mother of Jesus.” ...

There is nothing as psychologically and morally dangerous as lying, as denying the truth. Jesus warns us that we can commit a ...

According to tradition, this litany, approved in 1899 for public recitation, originated at Marseilles, where devotion to the Sacred Heart became very popular during the early eighteenth century.