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 ...

Next week, the Church celebrates Pentecost, one of the most important feast days of the year that concludes the Easter season ...

Said to have been the site where the Apostles and the Blessed Mother received the Holy Spirit during Pentecost, the Upper Room is located on the upper floor of a two-story building south of the ...

Mark says that after the baptism the Holy Spirit drove Jesus into the wilderness ... In this discourse, delivered in the upper room on the eve of the crucifixion, and recorded only by John ...

But in other ways they have resembled closely the modern charismatic experience dubbed “baptism in (or with, or of) the Holy Spirit ... ask that he might have a room by himself, and in ...

Empowered and enlightened by the Holy Spirit ... gift of the Spirit in baptism and confirmation are called to develop a similar missionary impulse. "From the 'upper room' of this basilica ...

"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 Holy Spirit is what gives power ... Francis also underlined that the apostles gathered in the upper room, together with Mary and other women, to pray with "perseverance." ...