Archbishop Bernard Hebda said that Catholics must remember that God has a plan for them and the Catholic Church. This plan is ...

89 For "by the sacrament of Confirmation ... the confirmand receives the "mark," the seal of the Holy Spirit. A seal is a symbol of a person, a sign of personal authority, or ownership of ...

Peter and John pray for these new converts, baptize them and lay hands on them to receive the Holy Spirit, ritual actions that inspire the sacraments of initiation, baptism and confirmation.

Traditionally, these are the most common images used as metaphors for the Holy Spirit ... of depicting the Spirit in these ways within a range of artforms, from confirmation candidates making ...

You’ll never completely understand them, but these symbols will illumine your path and catalyze in you the qualities you’ll need to walk it." The Symbol of Holy ... author of Spirit in Session ...

In 1957 a Dutch theologian named George Johan Sirks published an article in the Harvard Theological Review provocatively titled: "The Cinderella of Theology: The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit." ...

Holy Spirit Parish recently celebrated the Sacrament of Confirmation at St. Mary’s Church in Mocanaqua. Eleven young people from St. Martha’s Church in Fairmount Springs and St. Adalbert’s ...