Pentecost is the third great festival in the Christian church year. Pentecost is the spreading of the “good news” of the ...

(verse 11). The gift of tongues is the miraculous ability to speak in a foreign language. According to Acts 10, the household of Cornelius spoke in tongues when the Holy Spirit came upon them.

The reading from Acts 2 speaks of the Holy Spirit using two images: rushing wind and tongues of fire ... But Adam lost this gift by sinning and died spiritually. Thus, we see in this passage ...

According to those who defend speaking in tongues as a legitimate charismatic gift bestowed by the Holy Spirit, it is also a distinctive sign given to God’s Church as a fulfillment of divine ...

Nowadays, with the mushrooming of many Pentecostal churches, this once-rare gift of tongues is now very common. Could this mean that the Holy Spirit used not to dwell in Christians in the 1940s to ...

The rest 80-85% do not speak in tongues, through no fault of theirs. Tongues are Not of man; it is the gift of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit gives as He wills (1 Cor. 12:11) and it has ...

How can our hearts not be moved?” Archbishop Bernard Hebda asked the congregation at the Extended Vigil Mass of Pentecost ...

It was the reception of God’s gift for the sake of his mission. In his last promise to his disciples, Jesus said, “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my ...

Pentecostal Christians associate the presence of the Holy Spirit with a discernible sign, such as speaking in tongues. The writer Anne Lamott, whose fiction and nonfiction books often explore ...