"Acquire the Holy Spirit and thousands around you will acquire salvation" - St. Seraphim of Sarov
St. Seraphim dreamed big. Honored by both the Roman Catholic (today) and Orthodox (January 15) calendars, this wonderworker emphasized seeking communion with God as the true purpose of life for every Christian. St. Seraphim’s life demonstrated that everything else was merely the means for "acquiring the Holy Spirit."
Wait! Didn't we acquire the Holy Spirit at baptism and weren’t we sealed with the gift of the Spirit at Confirmation? Can't we acquire more of the Holy Spirit in the Sacrament of Reconciliation or receive the Eucharist? A resounding "yes" to all of these.
Prayer Companion: Come, Holy Spirit
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Featured Favorite: Today’s Good News
Pope Francis encourages us to proclaim God’s Word by the way we live. You can allow God to be God, living in your heart and working through you wherever you are, or you can do the sidestep dance and be miserable.
What will be your response today during the trials of sickness, financial worries, children acting out, and the overwhelming minute-by-minute demands of motherhood? Are you tempted to focus on yourself? Your needs? Or is the Holy Spirit inspiring you to become the good news?
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Live simply so others can simply live
By Dolores Love When our children were in grade school, a dear Daughter of Charity, Sister Mary Virginia Clarke, who helped get our own charismatic prayer group started, moved out to the Mexican border to work full time with Fr. Rick Thomas in full-time ministry to the poor in El Paso. She invited families...
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Featured Favorite: The Spirit of Simple Obedience
This little Visit with Jesus changed my life. I left with the conviction that He was asking me to be a Sister. What that meant, I really had very little idea. I didn’t know a lot about religious life. I didn’t know what kind of community I would enter, what I would do, or where I should turn. What I did have, after this initial “call,” was the conviction that “if this is what God is asking me to do, then I’ll do it.” As I have reflected back on this, years later, I thank my parents for helping instill this spirit of simple obedience to God in me in my early years, largely by their own example.
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Testimony: Embracing God’s Plan for Marriage
Our change of heart happened when we learned the Church’s teaching on openness to life. When we read St. John Paul II’s Letter to Families and learned the Theology of the Body, we came to accept God’s plan for marriage and family.
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