The great celebration of Pentecost is, of all our liturgical feasts, the solemnity most focused on the Holy Spirit. And yet, the profundity of what it is we believe and celebrate about the Holy Spirit ...

Sunday, May 31, is Pentecost Sunday. Mass readings: Acts 2:1-11; Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-31, 34; 1 Corinthians 12:3-7, 12-13; John 20:19-23. When I was in the third or fourth grade, our teacher invited a ...

Next to Easter and Christmas, Pentecost is the Church’s most important feast. That’s true not just for the liturgical calendar, but for our spiritual lives. Christmas marks Christ’s coming in the ...

Sunday, May 28, marks Pentecost, the conclusion of the Easter season and the commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles. In the Christian tradition, the rejoicing over Christ's ...

The beginning of Acts 2 reads like a breathless passage from a Hollywood screenplay: When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a ...

From the Catholic Culture Archives: Originally published in 2014. Since the feast of the Ascension, the Church has been liturgically preparing for Pentecost. The universal Church is back to her ...

This weekend marks the observance of Pentecost and Shavuot, holy days to Christians and Jews respectively. And both involve certain “gifts” that don’t come with wrapping and bows. Both of these ...

St. Peter and Paul parish church in Söll (Tyrol); Holy-Spirit-hole with dove; 19 August 2010; Picture taken by Wolfgang Sauber; Creative Commons. My son Christopher’s catastrophic brain injury over ...

Pope Leo XIV greets a child from the popemobile as he prepares to lead a Pentecost prayer vigil in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 7 with participants in the Jubilee of Ecclesial Movements, ...

The Spirit makes us see everything in a new way, with the eyes of Jesus. The Spirit himself reminds us of this, because he is the memory of God, the one who brings to our minds all that Jesus has said ...

Pentecost Sunday is the most important Sundays that most pastors miss. Yes. You had a great Easter service. Maybe you even hosted Maundy Thursday and Good Friday gatherings in the lead up to Easter, ...