Posts tagged Holy Spirit

Chasuble by Sacra Domus Aurea

Pentecost Novena: Day 3: The Gift of Piety

Sunday 16 May 2021

With the Gift of Piety we love God our Father. It inspires us to love and respect for His sake persons and things consecrated to Him.

Chasuble from Maris Stella Vestments

Pentecost Novena: Day 2: The Gift of Fear

Saturday 15 May 2021

The Gift of Fear is the fear that is the beginning of wisdom, detaching us from worldly pleasures that could in any way separate us from God.

Pentecost Novena: Day 1: The Holy Spirit

Friday 14 May 2021

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Light, of Strength, and of Love. With His sevenfold gifts He enlightens the mind, strengthens the will, and inflames the heart with love of God.

Pentecost (detail), Jean Restout the Younger (1692–1768), 1732; Musée du Louvre

Come, thou holy Paraclete

Sunday 31 May 2020

Today we recall and celebrate that historical moment when the power of the Holy Ghost was first poured into the Church.

The Spirit of the Lord has filled the whole world

Sunday 31 May 2020

We all hear the name of ‘Pentecost’, and we know that it is one of the major feasts of the Church’s year, but it is worth pausing to reflect a little more deeply on it…

Heart and Soul 3: Living in the Spirit.

Friday 27 July 2012

I began reports on Jo Gilbert’s workshop on Christian Community with her explanation of Koinonia. She had talked about how communion is rooted in the life of the Trinity and is our deepest vocation, as individuals and for the Church. She went on to look at how this communion, this koinonia comes out of experience […]