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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.
Pope urges war-torn world to walk through door of peace on …
15 hours ago · Holy Door, Pope Francis, Christmas, urbi et orbi. Visitors pass through the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 2024, after it was opened by Pope Francis during Christmas Mass the night prior to mark the start of the Holy Year 2025.
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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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6 days ago · 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.
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 ...
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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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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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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 …
We need hope in this wounded land, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem …
3 days 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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