May is traditionally a month honoring Our Lady. It is a common practice to construct a May altar to honor her, and to hold May crownings of statues of Our Lady. May also tends to be the month that Catholic children receive their First Holy Communions, and that some...
Pentecost Sunday is a moveable feast on the Catholic calendar: it is celebrated on a different day every year, exactly 50 days after Easter Sunday. Pentecost memorializes the day on which the Holy Spirit descended upon Mary and the Apostles as they were gathered in...
Pentecost is the sometimes called the “Birthday of the Church.” While it’s true that the Church was founded through the out pouring of the Holy Spirit, that gift was given to the whole church by being given to individuals. The tongues of fire came down and touched...
Pentecost is upon us—the last big feast before the official end of the Easter season and the beginning of the liturgical ordinary time. We’ve all been cooped up and deprived of the Sacraments for far too long, but that doesn’t mean we can’t find ways to celebrate...
If you mention that you’re praying a novena, you’ll probably get a mixed bag of reactions from friends and family. Some may say that novenas are incredibly powerful prayers that come with a guaranteed answer to prayer. Others see novenas as an old...
