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You hear about the Holy Spirit all the time, but have you ever wondered who (or what) the Spirit is and does?
I never thought that knowing about this mysterious member of the Trinity would have much of an effect on me, but after reading Frank Sheed’s The Action of the Holy Spirit, I wish I had discovered him sooner.
More than a Dove. Growing up as a cradle Catholic in the comfortable life of Chicago’s suburbia, I dismissed the Holy Spirit as just a term that “religious people” tossed around. But that all changed when I became a missionary for the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS). With this new job, I had to take everything about my faith much more seriously.
Facing the challenge of evangelizing college students, I turned to every possible source of aid—the sacraments, prayer, spiritual direction, Scripture, and support from other serious Catholics. Pursuing Christ and bringing others to him was extremely difficult, I was…
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