As the clock strikes midnight on December 24th, families around the world prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ in a heartfelt tradition known as the Novena de Aguinaldos, or the Novena of ...

The Novena de Navidad, also known as the Novena de Aguinaldos, is a cherished Catholic tradition that holds a special place in Colombian homes every December. This practice serves as a spiritual ...

St. Andrew’s Novena distinctly emphasizes, the “piercing cold” conditions of the first Christmas starkly contrast with the ...

No doubt, these are trying times. Our country is straining at the seams. Sides are split. Rancor is running high. Parties are poles apart. Foreign wars seem intent on dragging the United States closer ...

Novena for Pentecost: Join Dan Schutte in a virtual novena for Pentecost. The most powerful message we preach to the world is in the way we treat each other, especially at times like this when we are ...

On Dec. 16, we are just nine days until Christmas! The Church’s liturgy begins today to make a shift: the first part of Advent is far more eschatological, focusing on Jesus’ Second Coming and our need ...

Opening prayer – to be prayed before each day’s special prayer Be blessed, O most pure Virgin, for having vouchsafed to manifest your shining with life, sweetness and beauty, in the Grotto of Lourdes, ...

Some Christmas traditions are pretty standard in mainstream American culture: put up the tree, string up the lights. Hide the Elf on the Shelf, visit grandma, bake the cookies. Then there's the one my ...

The Archdiocese of Boston celebrated a novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe headlined by Archbishop Richard G. Henning from Dec. 4 to 12, in preparation for the 500th anniversary of her appa ...

Our Blessed Lord gave Sr. Faustina (for herself only initially) a Novena to His Mercy. She was to start it on Good Friday, that wonderful day when Christ first revealed how merciful and loving He was, ...

To conclude a novena that took place in the Archdiocese of Boston from Dec. 4-12, Archbishop Richard G. Henning celebrated Mass in St. Mary’s Church with students from the school filling the pews, ...