CCC, 437). After his baptism and confirmation, Jesus was said to be “filled with the Holy Spirit” (Luke 4:1). He is then tempted by the devil, again not unlike Adam in the Garden. After the ...
"The church must do precisely what Jesus says at the beginning of his public ministry," which, according to St. Luke's Gospel, is to accept the anointing of the Holy Spirit "to bring glad tidings ...
At Christmas time, most people focus on God sending His Son, Jesus, to earth to save mankind from sin. While the Holy Spirit is only mentioned in the Immaculate Conception. But the Holy Spirit is ...
According to tradition, this litany, approved in 1899 for public recitation, originated at Marseilles, where devotion to the Sacred Heart became very popular during the early eighteenth century.