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

Ash Wednesday, a holiday in which those practicing receive ash on their foreheads in the shape of a cross, will take place ...

Spurred on by the fervor of the Eucharistic faith of New Yorkers, six young adult perpetual pilgrims and I, accompanied by ...

"It's deeper than abstaining from ice cream," said Fr. Bill Swichtenberg of St. Mary Catholic Community in Appleton.

Paczki Day does not fall on the same day every year because it is celebrated on Fat Tuesday, which moves in relation to ...

marking the end of Lent and the beginning of the sacred "Triduum,” or three, of Holy Week. These days are the three holiest days in the Catholic Church. This Mass stresses the importance Jesus ...

In the Orthodox calendar there are special memorial days - Parents' Saturdays. One of them precedes Shrovetide and Great Lent ...

The date of Easter changes each year and can fall between March 22nd and April 25th. The symbols of Easter, such as bunnies ...

The preparation of Marriage actually began in 1923 when my husband gave a lecture on marriage at a Congress of the Catholic ... the Church had always implicitly recognized love as the meaning ...

The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on the Thursday before Easter Sunday. This year, Ash Wednesday and the ...

St Patrick's Day is also known as the Feast of Saint Patrick and marks the date of the Irish patron saint's death. The celebration traditionally commemorates St Patrick bringing Christianity to ...

Bishop André Perraudin, then Vicar Apostolic of Kabgayi, published a pastoral letter known as the “Lent letter” that was circulated in churches all over Rwanda to brainwash Rwandans. It is said that ...