Sunday, May 15, is Pentecost Sunday. Mass Readings: Acts 2: 1-11; Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-31, 34; 1 Corinthians 12:3-7, 12-13; John 20:19-23 Today’s readings present a number of symbols of the Holy Spirit ...
As a physician, I witness countless first and last breaths. As a Christian, I am constantly reminded of how God breathes life into us through his Spirit. The scalpel sliced through the uterine wall.
"Let everything that has breath praise the Lord," the author writes in Psalm 150, verse 6. Over the past month, I’ve been thinking about breathing with more regularity. My husband, Justin, got me a ...
The prophet Ezekiel’s narrative of the vision shown to him in chapter 37 has always been fascinating to me. Even as a young boy reading this story, vivid images of piles of human bones stretching ...
“He breathed on them and said, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit’” (John 20:23). When 37-year-old neurosurgeon Paul Kalinithi died of lung cancer in 2015, he and his wife had already completed an ...
Ethel Story believes the Holy Spirit moves her, even when she puts up resistance to the will of God. She compares herself to the windsock that flies in front of her church, Crooks Memorial United ...