The Gift of Fear
The recently republished The Seven Steps to Sanctification, How to Awaken the Gifts of the Holy Spirit within You outlines the Gifts of the Holy Spirit and the “Divine Will in Christ’s priestly prayer: “Sanctify them in truth” (John 17:17).” Written by two priests, Walter Farrell, O.P., and Dominic Hughes, O.P. the chapters take readers […]
The Parable of the Unjust Steward (Luke 16, 1-13) presents us with some rather unedifying characters. In summary, the parable is about a rich man calling upon his steward to release him for mismanagement. Since a steward is someone who manages another’s resources, this is a very serious accusation, even if it is not necessarily […]
The Sanctifier, Sweet Guest of the Soul, Interior Master of Prayer, Consoler and Counselor, Intimate Friend, Paraclete, Advocate, Soul of the Church, Uncreated bond of love between Father and Son—all of these express titles or names for the Third Person of the most Blessed Trinity: The Holy Spirit. Starts with Baptism From the moment we […]
One of the best analogies given in years past describing the Presence, Power and Perfection of the Holy Spirit is a sailboat. This was before electricity, motor-driven vehicles, or the electronic world. The sailboat is an analogy used in the Middle Ages or earlier. Imagine that you wanted to cross a lake and the distance […]
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