Sunday, May 28, is Pentecost Sunday. Mass readings: Acts 2:1-11; Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34; 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13; John 20:19-23. What a wondrous and challenging feast we celebrate at ...

Light shines through the Holy Spirit window in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this file photo. (CNS photo by Nancy Wiechec) The church is slowly reviving a treasure of the past, the Pentecost ...

We're celebrating one of the greatest feasts of the church year and all we have for evidence of it is a short account from the beginning of the Acts of the Apostles, also called the second volume of ...

When I was in middle school and heard the account of the Pentecost and the tongues of fire, I remember asking why the apostles didn’t burn up. If tongues of fire fell upon them, why is it that they ...

From a historical perspective, Christianity didn't start with Jesus' birth, his death or even his storied ascension to heaven. It started with Pentecost -- the day the "Holy Spirit" entered a room ...

As a child, one of my favorite Bible stories was about the Tower of Babel. It comes from the book of Genesis and is an ancient myth told in many religions and cultures. It concerns the time after Noah ...

"How manifold are your works, O Lord! The earth is full of your creatures!" This is our Pentecost song. As we pray Psalm 104, we celebrate all of creation as a revelation of God's very being. In ...

Pentecost offers us all a lesson in moving forward Many Protestant denominations consider Pentecost the third most important date in the Christian calendar, after Easter and Christmas. It was the time ...