YOUCAT*: To believe in the Holy Spirit means to worship him as God just like the Father and the Son. It means to believe that the Holy Spirit comes into our hearts so that we as children of God might know our Father in heaven. Moved by God’s Spirit, we can change the face of […]

YOUCAT*: “Confirmation is the Sacrament that completes Baptism; in it the gift of the Holy Spirit is bestowed upon us. Anyone who freely decides to live a life as God’s child and asks for God’s Spirit under the signs of the imposition of hands and anointing with Chrism receives the strength to witness to God’s […]

Why did God create us? God created us out of free and unselfish love. [Catechism of the Catholic Church 1-3] At the Easter Vigil, we hear the creation story from Genesis chapter one. After each day of creation, “God saw how good it was.” And after six days of creating, God rested. He rested knowing […]

YOUCAT*: As successor of St. Peter and head of the college of bishops, the pope is the source and guarantor of the Church’s unity. He has the supreme pastoral authority and the final authority in doctrinal and disciplinary decisions. [880-882,936-937] The pope announced that he would resign at the end of February “due to advanced […]

YOUCAT*: Charity is the power by which we, who have been loved first by God, can give ourselves to God so as to be united with him and can accept our neighbor for God’s sake as unconditionally and sincerely as we accept ourselves. [1822-1829, 1844] Charity is the greatest of three theological virtues (the other […]

YOUCAT*: Baptism does snatch us from the power of sin and death and brings us into the new life of the children of God, but it does not free us from human weakness and the inclination to sin. That is why we need a place where we can be reconciled with God again and again. […]

*YOUCAT: Through the Sign of the Cross we place ourselves under the protection of the Triune God. [2157, 2166] “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.” How many of you, as you read these words started to make the Sign of the Cross over yourself? Be […]