LOUISIANA AND THE

HOLY SPIRIT!

Please taking a few minutes and consider listening to some teachings on the Holy Spirit that helps one understand this relationship are:

Click here to listen to Fr. James Mallon.

Click here to listen to Archbishop Sheen.

From New Orleans to Lafayette to Baton Rouge to Houma-Thibodaux and looking to Alexandria and Shreveport, the Holy Spirit leads Louisiana into its own unique "Spirit of Sacrifice"!

POPE PAUL VI HAD THIS TO SAY ABOUT HOW THE HOLY SPIRIT WORKS WITH EFFORTS TO EVANGELIZE:

"Techniques of evangelization are good, but even the most advanced ones could not replace the gentle action of the Spirit. The most perfect preparation of the evangelizer has no effect without the Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit the most convincing dialectic has no power over the heart of man. Without Him the most highly developed schemas resting on a sociological or psychological basis are quickly seen to be quite valueless… It must be said that the Holy Spirit is the principal agent of evangelization: it is He who impels each individual to proclaim the Gospel, and it is He who in the depths of consciences causes the word of salvation to be accepted and understood.[118] But it can equally be said that He is the goal of evangelization: He alone stirs up the new creation, the new humanity of which evangelization is to be the result, with that unity in variety which evangelization wishes to achieve within the Christian community. Through the Holy Spirit the Gospel penetrates to the heart of the world, for it is He who causes people to discern the signs of the times- signs willed by God- which evangelization reveals and puts to use within history."

The excerpts above are from Paragraph No. 75:  EVANGELII NUNTIANDI - APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION  OF HIS HOLINESS  POPE PAUL VI TO THE EPISCOPATE, TO THE CLERGY AND TO ALL THE FAITHFUL OF THE ENTIRE WORLD.

TO READ WHAT POPE LEO HAD TO SAY IN 1897 ABOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE CHURCH, PLEASE CONSIDER READING THE SHORT ENCYCLICAL TITLED:  DIVINUM ILLUD MUNUS AN ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON THE HOLY SPIRIT.  TO READ IT, PLEASE CLICK HERE.

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW THE HOLY SPIRIT MANIFESTED HIMSELF THROUGH AT LEAST ONE HUMBLE SOUL FROM LOUISIANA IN THE 1800'S, SCROLL BACK UP TO THE LEGEND ON THE LEFT AND CLICK ON:  "Louisiana Catholic - A Lost Treasure".

For more on the Church Militant and these Holy Spirit-annointed "Louisiana Church Treasures", click here and here.

TO VISIT THE EVER-GROWING WEBSITES OF LOUISIANA CATHOLICS IN ACTION, PLEASE SCROLL BACK UP TO THE LEGEND ON THE LEFT AND CLICK ON THE PAGE:

"LOUISIANA CATHOLICS IN ACTION WEBSITES"