Tag: seven gifts of the Holy Spirit

It was raining hard the day our son, then a high school freshman, encountered a rain-drenched student he did not know but who, unlike...

We know real piety when we see it, right? Yes, but no. Pope Francis expressed concern in a 2014 talk that piety, known as...

When I was a little girl, I took swimming lessons at the municipal pool in the town near my farm home. The instructor was...

When wondering how we will get through a crisis, when we are faced with decisions that challenge our beliefs, when heaven seems far away,...

"Lord, if you could just tell us what to do, like, now ... that would be much appreciated." It was a dark and rainy Friday...

I must have been in the third or fourth grade when I first heard about the gifts of the Holy Spirit. In our rural...

For the past eight years, I've watched my husband prayerfully discern every move he's made, career or otherwise. Discernment is something we are all encouraged...

What is knowledge? More specifically, what is knowledge in relation to our Catholic faith? Several years ago, I came upon St. Bonaventure's "Prayer for the...

The gift of understanding, described in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, differs from wisdom (No. 1831). While wisdom desires to contemplate the things...

"I just can't understand ..." How often do we utter those words in consternation, confusion and anger during these troubled times? Often, what we don't...