Holy Spirit

Archbishop Hebda prepares to review ideas from 2025 Archdiocesan Synod Assembly

Archbishop Bernard Hebda described the Archdiocesan Synod 2025: Be My Witnesses Assembly as a day of hope. The 2025 Archdiocesan Synod Assembly was shorter than the previous one in 2022, which Archbishop Hebda believed helped prepare assembly members to discuss propositions more intently. The format of the day was the same as in 2022, but assembly members expressed to Archbishop Hebda that they were grateful for more time to discuss the propositions.

Attendees discuss, discern at Archdiocesan Synod Assembly 2025 in St. Paul

About 450 people from across the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis gathered at Cretin-Derham Hall in St. Paul June 7 to prayerfully consider and vote on propositions they believe the Holy Spirit is inviting Archbishop Bernard Hebda to prioritize for coming years. The day included morning prayer and adoration of the Eucharist in the high school’s Joe Mauer Fieldhouse where the assembly was held, and an adoration chapel was set aside for people who felt called to more prayer.

The Holy Spirit: What does he mean for us?

The Trinity is the most powerful entity in the universe. It is capable of doing anything and can fulfill any prayer request. The life-giving Holy Spirit is the outpouring of love between the Father and the Son and is lavished upon the Earth in abundance.

Assembly members, the faithful preparing for Archdiocesan Synod 2025

Prayer and praise, small and large group dialogue and voting.

Baptismal waters and the Holy Spirit’s fire

This is confirmation season. While some of our candidates receive this great sacrament in the fall or winter, the vast majority of young people within the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis receive the sacrament in the weeks and months right after Easter. It’s a very, very busy time for our bishops, as well as for the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul and the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis.

Archdiocesan Synod 2025: Seeking the Holy Spirit’s guidance, inspiration

Nearly 500 people across the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis are preparing for a June 7 Be My Witnesses Assembly in St. Paul to help Archbishop Bernard Hebda determine pastoral priorities for the coming years.

Why I am Catholic — Luis Rojas

Have you ever thought about why you are Catholic? I started reflecting on it after being invited to write an essay for The Catholic Spirit. I did not want to settle with a quick and shallow answer, so I tried searching deeper in my soul.

Marriage and family therapist encourages Catholics to quiet their lives

When she aligns her life with virtues, Soucheray said the Holy Spirit quickens her heart. She said that when she’s too busy, all worked up or distracted, there is no room for the Holy Spirit to quicken her heart, giving her no chance to respond to that prompting.

Why I Am Catholic — MaryPat Kirsh

Before turning 25, I believed the best way to handle trials and suffering in my life was to brush them off and deal with them on my own. Pain would just keep growing and I would have to manage it myself. It was only when I entered the adoration chapel, gazed upon Jesus in his true divinity within the monstrance, and allowed him to open my eyes to his love for me and his true nature, that I truly understood who he is.

The transformative power of the Holy Spirit

With Lent quickly approaching, it’s time to consider what we will do with the season of grace that God is giving to us. In thinking about Lent, I’m reminded of an email that I received from a parishioner last May.

In the beginning was the Word

As we conclude our Christmas celebrations, having been blessed with the graces of the season and the opening of the Jubilee Year, we move into Ordinary Time with an invitation to see the beauty and complexity of life that surrounds us.

Hope is an ‘active virtue’ that makes good things happen, pope says

The "most beautiful gift" the Catholic Church and its members can give the world is a reason to live with hope, Pope Francis said.
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