The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit is a concept in Catholicism. The gifts refer to the seven graces bestowed upon Catholics who follow their faith correctly. The gifts -- wisdom, piety, fear of the Lord, understanding, counsel, knowledge and fortitude -- are outlined in the Bible in Isaiah...
1.the act of confirming. 2.the state of being confirmed. 3.something that confirms, as a corroborative statement or piece of evidence. 4.a Christian rite administered to baptized persons, regarded as a sacrament endowing gifts of the Holy Spirit or as a ceremony of admission to full commu...
accepted the gospel invitation. There can be no doubt that the gift of the Holy Ghost, which they all received, and from which no true believer has ever been shut out, was that Spirit of adoption, that converting, guiding, sanctifying grace, which is bestowed upon all the members of the...
The Catholic sacrament of Confirmation: Learn WHAT Confirmation is, and WHY it's important for a full, adult faith and life.
The gift and the gifts of the Holy Spirit The revised Rite of Confirmation in the Roman Catholic Church uses Accipe signaculum Doni Spiritus Sancti, 'Be sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit' I as its essential formula. By doing so it points to a wealth of Scriptural and Patri... ...
The seven sacraments are an integral part of the Catholic faith. Find information about confirmation at Loyola Press.
A selection of books and gifts for those receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation and for their sponsors, as well.
Last weekend, we,The Anchor, thesatiricaldivision of theHoly Church of Iggy the Inuit, felt the peculiar need for an apology. It is a feeling we seldom have, being a general pain in the arse and having carefully cultivated the pompous pernickety air our spiritual job has brought upon us...
both without danger and without blasphemy; and [above all, it consists in] the pre-eminent gift of love (2 Corinthians 8:1; 1 Corinthians 13), which is more precious than knowledge, more glorious than prophecy, and which excels all the other gifts [of God] (Against HeresiesIV.33.8). ...
It is not said anywhere that St. Anna instructed her daughter. It has even been regarded as unorthodox to suppose that the Virgin, enriched from her birth, and before her birth, with all the gifts of the Holy Spirit, required instruction from anyone. Nevertheless, the subject of the “Educ...