“I have the theological understanding of a bright second-grader,” she wrote in an email to The Washington Post, “but my understanding of the Holy Spirit is that it’s the comforte ...

Even for the most devout people of faith, the Holy Spirit can be mysterious and the least understood person of the Holy Trinity. Bible scholars point to Abrahamic religions, where the Holy Spirit ...

God the Father unbegot­ten, only­-begotten Son, and Holy Spirit, the Comforter: holy and undivided Trinity, with all our hearts we acknowledge you:Glory to you for ever. V. Let us bless the ...

Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove. and a voice ...

When I hear this story from either Matthew or Luke, I sometimes find myself picturing some kind of personified Holy Spirit holding out her hand to Jesus, clasping his and gently leading him into ...

Last year, Pope Francis described the Holy Spirit as an advocator and comforter during a mass at St. Peter's Basilica. He said it "impels us to unity, to harmony, to the harmony of diversity ...

But last week, at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter in the North Shore Chicago suburb of Kenilworth, school children gathered about the tomb of Eugene Field on the day before the 44th ...

In confirmation, the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are increased within a soul: wisdom, understanding, knowledge, counsel, fortitude, piety and fear of the Lord. Fresco of Pentecost in Church of ...