The first novena ever prayed is the Pentecost Novena, or the Novena to the Holy Spirit. This year, it begins on Friday, May 19, and concludes on Saturday, May 27. Catholics worldwide often recite the ...

By Father Nicholas Akindele Guest Column “Behold this heart which has so loved men that it has spared nothing, even ...Read ...

An initiative of prayer and religious formation under the aegis of St. Joan of Arc has just been initiated in France, with the aim of making it recover its original vocation as the “Eldest Daughter of ...

Editor's note: NCR is sharing with our readers a nine-day Novena for Pentecost resource created by board member and composer Dan Schutte. Schutte writes, "if there's ever a moment when we all could ...

They urged that you join in praying the Divine Mercy Novena beginning this Good Friday or Pray it any time you'd like! The Divine Mercy novena prayers were given to St. Faustina through an apparition ...

I remember my first time attending a novena of prayers for the dead drawn from traditions of rural Mexico. The sense of community was palpable. Night after night, patio chairs were set up under ...

A novena is a prayer that is said repeatedly over nine — or a multiple of nine — days or weeks. In Latin, "novem" means "nine." The Surrender Novena, composed by Servant of God Don Dolindo Ruotolo, is ...

Archdiocese to host June 3-11 novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus ahead of national consecration during America’s 250th ...

PHILIPPINE Ambassador to the Vatican Mercedes Tuason (center) receives the Dame Grand Cross Award from Pope Benedict XVI on June 19. With her are Executive Assistant and Confidential Secretary ...

“Acres of old maids” (as one priest puts it) have loved the novena—the Roman Catholic prayer service, usually offered once a week in the evening in honor of a saint or the Virgin Mary. Now the novena ...