I once asked a friend of mine when she had gotten married. She said, "We were married from the moment we decided that we would spend the rest of our lives building up our love. Our wedding celebrated ...

Light shines through the Holy Spirit window in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this file photo. (CNS photo by Nancy Wiechec) The church is slowly reviving a treasure of the past, the Pentecost ...

We're celebrating one of the greatest feasts of the church year and all we have for evidence of it is a short account from the beginning of the Acts of the Apostles, also called the second volume of ...

Sunday, May 23, is Pentecost Sunday. Mass Readings: Acts 2:1-11, 39-40; Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-32, 34; 1 Corinthians 12:3-7, 12-13 or Galatians 5:16-25; John 20:19-23 or John 15:26-27, 16:12-15. This is ...

Sunday, May 19, is Pentecost. Mass readings: Acts 2:1-11; Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34; 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13; John 20:19-23. Pentecost is a feast about fire, a transformative, refining, ...

On Pentecost, the Holy Spirit — whom Jesus Christ promised to send at his Ascension — burst into the upper room “like a strong driving wind” where his Apostles and disciples were gathered. Appearing ...