The Holy Spirit is like water. Water fills all things; it is gentle like dew or strong like a flood; it seeps into what will let it, bringing life, and pushes aside what will not.

Growing up, I was the youngest of five siblings—three boys, two girls. My brother, Kenny, five years my senior, was an exceptional athlete. I loved him picking me up to ...

Like Matthew 3:11 tells us, John said “I indeed baptize you with water into repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worth to carry. He will baptize ...

May God, who through water and the Holy Spirit has given us a new birth in Christ, be with you all. All make the following or some other suitable reply: And with your spirit.

The Holy Spirit is far more than the symbols mentioned in scripture such as fire, wind, water, breath. The Holy Spirit is a person, a Someone, to whom scripture says that we can cry out to, asking ...

“The Spirit is the dove of peace who calms us, the gift giver who equips us, the river of living water who flows out of us to refresh the world.” Max Lucado – “Help Is Here” Fifteen ...

In the King James Version, the Holy Spirit is called the Holy Ghost. Zachariah 4, “So he said to me, ‘This is the Word of The Lord to Zerubbabel, not by might nor by power but by My Spirit ...

Holy water, like those other aids ... baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.” In the sacrament of Baptism, holy water is the material substance used by God to ...

The Holy Spirit is in charge of the synodal process, but the question is whether we are willing to be led, or have to be driven and pushed into the process, says Fr. Daniel Horan.