A young woman receives ashes during Ash Wednesday at Sacred Heart Church in Prescott, Ariz., Feb. 14, 2024. (OSV News ...

Ash Wednesday begins the Christian season of Lent. The 6-week period is a tectonic time of year leading up to Easter. What we ...

The 2025 Easter season is on its way, beginning with the Mardi Gras celebration, followed by Ash Wednesday, Lent, and finally Easter. During Easter, some might celebrate their belief in Jesus Christ's ...

The holiday's date is determined by the spring equinox and full moon cycle. On the Gregorian calendar (the one we use), ...

At Olde Tyme Grocery in Lafayette, their celebrated fried crawfish po’boys are sold exclusively on Fridays during Lent.

Easter 2025 season is late this year. 'Fat Tuesday' Mardi Gras will give way to Ash Wednesday and kick off the start of Lent.

40 daily reflections (£2.50 (£2.25); 978-1-78140-500-0) by Cathrine Fungai Ngangira, Belle Tindall, and Victoria Mason, and the child’s ver­sion, Living Hope: A Lent journey for children (£1.99 (£1.79 ...

Lent, the 40-day season of prayer ... Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are known as obligatory days of abstinence. Children 14 and older are expected to abstain from meat. The observance of Ash ...

I’ve known such churches to promote the use of a 40-day devotional/prayer journal to give congregants a tool to prompt worship, confession (sometimes fasting which is a traditional Lenten practice), ...

“At least forty children reportedly killed across just three days, in three separate areas of the country. This is a stark illustration of the devastating – and growing – threats to children ...