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 ...

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 ...

The St. Aloysius Catholic Church novena prayer service will be posted daily at 9 a.m., June 13-21 at stalschurch.org. His parents called him Luigi, but his Latinized name is Aloysius. He was born into ...

SCRANTON – As many longtime worshippers made their yearly trip to St. Ann’s Shrine Basilica on Sunday evening, George Coyoy visited for the first time. Coyoy, 33, who moved to Scranton from Miami ...

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 ...