This weekend, the Church celebrates Pentecost, one of the most important feast days of the year, which concludes the Easter season.

In the Christian tradition, Pentecost is the celebration of the person of the Holy Spirit coming upon the Apostles, Mary, and the first followers of Jesus, who were gathered together in the Upper Room ...

Though he made a grand entrance in the upper room on the day of Pentecost ... Did we miss the Holy Spirit? My friends, stand on the scripture that promises his gift at baptism. Philip Wajaya answers ...

First, the gift of the Holy Spirit. When we are baptized, we join not only Jesus in the Jordan but also the 12 in the Upper Room (Acts 2:1–13). Every baptism is a personal Pentecost. As the ...

We need to come out of the upper room and, with the help of the Holy Spirit, continue with the mission right where we are. We need not wait for the MCO to end. We need to begin by evangelising ...

For Jews, Shavuot celebrates the giving of the Torah while, for Christians, Pentecost, falling on the same day, marks the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles in the Upper Room. This event ...

“Brothers and sisters, the Holy Spirit, Who in the beginning transformed chaos into cosmos, is at work to bring about this transformation in every person,” Pope Francis said in his general ...

Even more than a wedding, a baptism is a sign of a new beginning ... one week after Pentecost. Following the Holy Spirit’s thunderous arrival in the Upper Room, the Trinity has been revealed to a ...

"We all received the Holy Spirit at baptism and, even more ... recounted in the Bible with the Apostles gathered in the Upper Room and filled with fear. "And then the Holy Spirit came and changed ...

“The first breath of the Holy Spirit given to you in baptism” and strengthened in confirmation will help “in your exertions along the way to persevere to joyous completion.” The archbishop then prayed ...

(OSV News) — Of all the great Christian feasts, none, with the exception of Easter and perhaps Christmas, has been and is more widely celebrated than Pentecost. The oldest of our festivals, just the ...

The baptism of the Holy Spirit has long been the subject of much debate within ... People from around the world were in Jerusalem, and they heard the men and women in that Upper Room speaking in their ...