The first novena ever prayed is the Pentecost Novena, or the Novena to the Holy Spirit. This year, it begins on Friday, May 27, and concludes on Saturday, June 4. Catholics worldwide often recite the ...

The EWTN Global Catholic Network (the Register is a service of EWTN) has organized a novena to the Virgin Mary for religious freedom in the U.S. to pray for the country ahead of the November elections ...

Pope Benedict XVI has decreed an indulgence for Catholics in Hong Kong who join a novena to Our Lady, Help of Christians asking for special prayers for the Church in China. The novena is a response to ...

As the feast day of St. Dominic de Guzman is celebrated Tuesday, Aug. 8, members of the Dominican order and thousands of Catholic laity are continuing a nine-month novena before heading to Washington, ...

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 ...

Since Thursday morning, about 250 people have knelt, morning and evening, inside and prayed for their hearts' desires. A sampling of petitions read aloud offers a glimpse into the suffering and hard ...

Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria, Ill., hands a copy of the “positio” on Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen’s life to Father James O’Brien, representing the late Cardinal Francis E. George and the Archdiocese ...

Churches across Mumbai began Novenas prayers on Friday as preparation for the feast or birthday of Mother Mary on September 8. Novenas, from the Latin word 'novem' meaning nine, are prayers for nine ...

“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 ...