Tag: Holy Spirit

Interpreting Scripture No book, not even an inspired one, interprets itself.  Humans do that.  So when Philip asked the Ethiopian eunuch if he understood the meaning of the passage from

He Has Spoken Through the Prophets As we saw in Chapter 8, Jesus taught the Church to read the Old Testament with the assurance that Scripture had a literal sense,

Playing Dress-Up and Becoming What We Are Another vital likeness between drama and the Faith is… faith.  The theatre asks us for a willing suspension of disbelief—in other words, an

The Drama of Worship in the Holy Spirit Catholic worship, like Jewish worship before it, is deeply liturgical.  Liturgy means “the work of the people” and is the great communal

Learning to Worship God Saves Creatures from Our Destructive Demands Another reason God commands we learn to worship him is to save his creatures from our inveterate habit of “unduly

Human Beings: Made for Worship, But Broken Too The Psalms speak of the whole of creation adoring and glorifying God.  Sun, moon, stars, fire, hail, snow, frost, wind, mountains, hills,

With the Father and the Son He is Adored and Glorified However much controversy may have surrounded the procession of the Spirit from the Father and the Son, the Creed

As we said on Friday in best Rest is History cliffhanger fashion, sometime in the 700s, a local council in Spain did something momentous: they unilaterally inserted “and the Son”

The Filioque Controversy One of the more arcane controversies in the history of the Church has to be touched on here. It is a matter that tends to make the

The Procession of the Spirit Means God is Love Some people have the notion that all this sort of thing is just cold theological abstraction that comes from philosophers out