Category: Holy Spirit

Why do the heathen rage? (Acts 4)

September 3, 2025 / Michael Haverkamp

After their release they went back to their own people and reported what the chief priests and elders had told them. And when they heard it, they raised their voices to God with one accord and said, “Sovereign Lord, maker of heaven and earth and the sea and all that

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The Miracle of Pentecost

August 12, 2025 / Michael Haverkamp

On the morning of Pentecost, in 33 AD, there were maybe 500 followers of Jesus in the world. By the end of the great day, 3,000 people had been baptized. The Church grew sixfold in one day. It was the greatest day in the history of evangelization. How did it

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The Ascension of Jesus and the Last Hour

July 14, 2025 / Michael Haverkamp

The Ascension of Jesus is the transitional point between Jesus’ earthly ministry and the Age of the Church. Luke both ends his gospel and begins Acts of the Apostles with this event. The Ascension is also the culmination of the Resurrection. Jesus did not defeat death for its own sake,

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Acts of the Apostles (Introduction)

June 25, 2025 / Michael Haverkamp

On Sunday morning, May 24, in the year 33 A.D., 120 people were gathered together in the city of Jerusalem. Their leader had been killed seven weeks earlier, and they were in hiding. They were men and women, mostly humble workers, fishermen and the like, who lived outside the big

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Led by the Spirit (Romans 8)

January 17, 2023 / Michael Haverkamp

Paul’s primary theme in Romans is that we are saved through faith in Jesus. Another major theme, implied by the first, is that to believe in Jesus is to take on a whole new way of life. Hence, now there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

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The Humorous Saint

October 11, 2022 / Michael Haverkamp

“Well brothers, when shall we begin to do some good?” Saint Philip Neri had such an impact in his day that he is remembered as the “Apostle of Rome.” He experienced a profound conversion at the age of 18 and devoted himself entirely to our Lord thereafter. The Holy Spirit

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The Holy Trinity

August 16, 2022 / Michael Haverkamp

I love learning new things about God, and I love that there are always new things to learn. Father Michael Gaitley’s book, The ‘One Thing’ Is Three: How the Holy Trinity Explains Everything, gave me some new insights into the mystery of the Holy Trinity, and in particular, a proof

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John 16: “I have conquered the world”

March 30, 2022 / Michael Haverkamp

“But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ But because I told you this, grief has filled your hearts. But I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I go. For if I do not go,

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John 14

February 16, 2022 / Michael Haverkamp

Jesus’ most famous discourse in the gospels is the Sermon on the Mount, found in St. Matthew’s gospel, chapters 5-7. It contains some of Jesus’ deepest moral teachings, as He tells us how we are to orient our hearts to love of God and our neighbor. The Last Supper Discourse,

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The Baptism of the Lord

July 23, 2019 / Michael Haverkamp

Every good story has a beginning, a middle and an end. The Rosary is the story of our salvation, accomplished by Christ, as seen through the eyes of Mary. The traditional mysteries of the Rosary center around the three key events of salvation: the Incarnation, the Passion and the Resurrection.

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The Descent of the Holy Spirit

June 4, 2019 / Michael Haverkamp

When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together. And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it filled the entire house in which they were. Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each one

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