NEWSLETTER INSERTS - ON THE HOLY SPIRIT

'The Spirit is the source of holiness, a spiritual light, and he offers his own light to every mind to help it in its search for truth'.

St. Basil the Great

'The Spirit comes with the tenderness of a true friend and protector to save, to heal, to teach, to counsel, to strengthen, to console.'

St. Cyril of Jerusalem

'It can easily be shown from examples both in the Old Testament and the New that the Spirit changes those in whom he comes to dwell; he so transforms them that they begin to live a completely new kind of life.

St. Cyril of Alexandria

'The gift of God is the Holy Spirit.'

St. Augustine

'Happy the person whose words issue from the Holy Spirit and not from himself!'

St. Anthony of Padua

‘So, do not forget this. It is beautiful to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation, it is wonderful to receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit, but it is so important that each of you also makes this commitment, this promise to the Lord: that you truly wish to continue as His friends, His disciples, His missionaries, and that you wish to persevere in the faith’.

Pope Leo XIV to Confirmation candidates from the Metropolitan Diocese of Genoa, 16^th May 2026.

‘Why did Christ call the grace of the Spirit water? Because all things are dependent on water; plants and animals have their origin in water. Water comes down from heaven as rain, and although it is always the same in itself, it produces many different effects, one in the palm tree, another in the vine, and so on throughout the whole of creation. It does not come down, now as one thing, now as another, but while remaining essentially the same, it adapts itself to the needs of every creature that receives it’.

St Cyril of Jerusalem

'As light strikes the eyes of a man who comes out of darkness into the sunshine and enables him to see clearly things he could not discern before, so light floods the soul of the man counted worthy of receiving the Holy Spirit and enables him to see things beyond the range of human vision, things hitherto undreamed of'.

St Cyril of Jerusalem