Let us return to where it all began, which would be Holy Thursday night. The place, the Upper Room of the Cenacle in Jerusalem. And the event, what is that but a paschal meal shared by Jesus and his ...

The Holy Spirit might be called the “faceless God,” though we do not say that because it denigrates. We see the face as the portal to the soul, even if we sometimes fail to read what truly lies inside ...

Sunday, June 5, is Pentecost Sunday. Mass readings: Acts 2:1-11; Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34; 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13 or Romans 8:8-17; John 20:19-23 or John 14:15-16, 23b-26. What a wondrous ...

The Holy Spirit’s wall of fire is not singing a Johnny Cash love song, where he was falling into a burning ring of fire. And ...

The Spirit’s descent at Pentecost is a model for diverse and distributed leadership. The modern church in the West has a suspicious relationship with power. When it serves our interests or protects ...

The book brings together the contributions of 17 members of the STM faculty to present contemporary understandings of the Holy Spirit in the life of the church. The contributions range from scripture ...

As many of you will recall, I was in Jerusalem for Orthodox Holy Week. My experience included being present in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for the Holy Fire ceremony. According to Wikipedia: The ...