Lent 2025: when does it start and why do Christians observe it? - Deciding what to give up for Lent is a personal choice, ...
Lent is the period of six weeks (40 days not including Sundays) leading up to Easter, the most important festival in the Christian calendar. Lent starts on Ash Wednesday. The last week of Lent is ...
Molly Pavleck asked junior high students at St. Thomas School to write what Lent means to them – the following is what some of them had to say: “Lent means that Jesus is coming soon and we are ...
Members of the Catholic Church, ages 18 to 59, are required to observe Lent and fast on Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are known as obligatory days of abstinence. Children 14 and ...