Tag: Holy Spirit
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: We can only hear the Holy...
Sunday Scripture readings for July 2, 2023, 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time
2 Kgs 4:8-11, 14-16a Ps 89:2-3, 16-17, 18-19 Rom 6:3-4, 8-11 Mt 10:37-42
We...
At Red Mass in Washington, Bishop John O. Barres of Rockville...
WASHINGTON -- Just as people seek wise counsel in legal matters, so too should people prayerfully seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit, whom...
Work assignment leads to unlikely pilgrimage to St. Augustine Church in...
On July 9, 2019, my parents celebrated their 31st wedding anniversary, and my mom was diagnosed with cancer.
I was in Washington, nearing the end...
Pentecost: Meditating on the birthday of the church and the Holy...
Pentecost invites us to celebrate the birthday of the church and meditate upon the Holy Spirit's role in our individual lives.
I remember a small...
Pentecost: A time to breathe, forgive and renew
What could be more essential to life than breathing -- or forgiving?
Breathing and forgiving: One follows the other. Forgiveness, as Jesus makes clear throughout...
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Connecting to the Spirit within us
Sunday Scripture readings, July 5, 2020: Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
1) Zec 9:9-10
Psalm 145: 1-2, 8-11, 13-14
2) Rom 8:9, 11-13
Gospel: Mt 11:25-30
Connecting to the...
Pentecost: Christian life begins and ends in the power of the...
Sunday Scripture readings, May 31, 2020
1) Acts 2:1-11
Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-31, 34
2) 1 Cor 12:3-7, 12-13
Gospel: Jn 20:19-23
Christian life begins and ends in the...
Pentecost: Know forgiveness, know peace; no forgiveness, no peace
"Peace be with you," Jesus says in the Gospel reading for Pentecost Sunday (Jn 20:19).
Peace — as in harmony, or even as in a...
Gifts of the Spirit: Another name for fortitude is courage
When I was a little girl, I took swimming lessons at the municipal pool in the town near my farm home. The instructor was...
Gifts of the Spirit: Fortitude provides us with never-ending perseverance
When wondering how we will get through a crisis, when we are faced with decisions that challenge our beliefs, when heaven seems far away,...