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 ...

Throughout the country many (if not most) Jesuit high schools and colleges (as well as many other Catholic schools) are marking the opening of the academic year with the Mass of the Holy Spirit. As ...

In 1957 a Dutch theologian named George Johan Sirks published an article in the Harvard Theological Review provocatively titled: "The Cinderella of Theology: The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit." Sirks ...

Sometimes we cannot see the infinite possibilities because we are looking at ourselves. We can look to the Holy Spirit.

2. When was the word first used? The first surviving use of the term (there may have been earlier uses that are now lost) was about 170 A.D. by Theophilus of Antioch, who wrote: “In like manner also ...

At the beginning of each academic year, the Santa Clara University community celebrates the Mass of the Holy Spirit. As a University community rooted in the Jesuit, Catholic tradition, many of us call ...