Inspired by the Spirit, Renew the Face of the Earth

by Sister Patricia Berliner, C.S.J. COME, O HOLY Spirit, Come. The entrance antiphon for this week’s readings is: “The  love of God has been poured into our hearts by God’s spirit living in us.” In the first reading from the  Acts of the Apostles, we learn that when the time for  Pentecost was fulfilled, they  were […]

Paraclete Drives Humanity to God

By Fr. Thomas Catania HAD HE BEEN ABLE to foresee the proliferation of lawyer jokes in subsequent centuries, John the Evangelist might not have been so quick to transpose his insight into what the abiding presence of the Risen Jesus meant to believers into lawyer-ly terms. For, although it is open to a variety of […]