VATICAN CITY — Joy is a grace and a gift of the Holy Spirit, not just positive emotions or feeling cheerful, Pope Francis said at Mass at the Vatican Thursday. Joy “is not the consequence of emotions ...

It was lunch time, and under a warm November sun, in a large, open maidan ringed by canopies of great rain trees, we wandered among the multitudes of happy people either cooking food or eating it.

Let us return to where it all began, which would be Holy Thursday night. The place, the Upper Room of the Cenacle in Jerusalem. And the event, what is that but a paschal meal shared by Jesus and his ...

I have loved you even as the Father has love me. Remain in my love. When you obey Me, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father and remain in His love. I have told you this so that you will be ...

The work of the Holy Spirit not only pervades the Scriptures from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22, but extends to every aspect of divine creation. Abraham Kuyper, the great Dutch theologian, summarized the ...