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By the time December rolls around each year, it feels like the past 12 months have seen it all. In particular for 2024, they saw tens of thousands of people kneeling in Lucas Oil Stadium; the doors of Notre Dame Cathedral reopened; a history-making election; another Roman synod; and, always, too much war and strife.
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Oct 15, 2020 · In the reception of the sacrament of confirmation, the person receives the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, wisdom and understanding, counsel and strength (fortitude), knowledge and fear of the Lord (Is 11:2), and piety. These gifts are not to sit idle or be kept in storage. Rather, they are to be put to good use so they will bear much fruit.
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Apr 11, 2024 · In “Gaudium et spes,” the Vatican II document on “The Church in the Modern World,” the council states, “spouses … are fortified and, as it were, consecrated for the duties and dignity of their state by a special sacrament; fulfilling their conjugal and family role by virtue of this sacrament, spouses are penetrated with the spirit of Christ …
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May 13, 2016 · The Fruits of the Spirit. The Holy Spirit is one of the three persons of the Triune God, the Most Holy Trinity, and St. Paul in his letter to the Galatians provides a list of nine fruits of the Spirit: “Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, [and] self-control” (Gal 5:22,23).
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Sep 16, 2020 · Fortitude is an unwavering commitment to God or a proper course of action, and it shows itself as moral strength, courage, determination, patient endurance, long suffering, a resolute spirit, stamina and resiliency.. Knowledge is the ability to study and learn; to acquire, retain and master facts and information; and to put what is …
Cupich: Standing, not kneeling, for Communion a ‘powerful …
Dec 18, 2024 · Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, right, celebrates Mass at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago June 30, 2024. Cardinal Cupich is calling for faithful to receive holy Communion standing — the normative posture established by the U.S. Catholic bishops — as part of a renewed awareness of the theology of the Communion procession, which symbolizes the unity of the body of Christ as it partakes of ...
We need hope in this wounded land, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem …
1 day ago · Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, is seen during a press conference Dec. 23, 2024, in Jerusalem. A day earlier he made a pre-Christmas visit to the Gaza Strip, aiming to bring the joy of the season to the suffering Christian community in the 14th month of Israel-Hamas war.
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Feb 17, 2011 · The Holy Spirit is associated with a number of sets of gifts and fruits. The sacrament of confirmation “increases the gifts of the Holy Spirit within us” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 1303).
Pope urges Christians to joyfully cultivate fruits of the Spirit
Dec 2, 2024 · Pope Francis greets visitors as he rides the popemobile around St. Peter’s Square before his weekly general audience at the Vatican Nov. 27, 2024. CNS photo/Lola Gomez Not every Christian is called to be an apostle, prophet or evangelist, Pope Francis said, but all Christians can cultivate the ...
Archbishop Hebda: The Holy Spirit is at center of archdiocese’s …
May 20, 2024 · Comparing his excitement to that of a child on Christmas Eve, Archbishop Bernard Hebda said he waits each year at Pentecost “to see what it is that the Holy Spirit is going to do in our local Church when we open our hearts to the gifts of the Spirit.”