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 ...

“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 ...

The song of prayer is heard throughout St. Ann's Monastery as its Solemn Novena is making its way towards its final day. Community members and parishioners are continuing to attend daily masses as ...

Novena masses, the nine-day prayers of thanksgiving and petition, got underway at the Shrine of Infant Jesus on Nashik Road, ahead of the annual feast of the shrine on February 11-12. A large number ...