Soon millions of Christians will be taking 40 days to contemplate the last days of Jesus Christ before the celebration of ...

Good Friday, the Friday before Easter, falls on April 18, 2025. The holiday remembers the day that Jesus Christ suffered and ...

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

Lent is one of the five seasons on the Catholic liturgical calendar ... other denominations of Christian faith observe Ash Wednesday with prayer and fasting to put themselves in the place of ...

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 ...

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

Ashes will be distributed during all services that will be held at various times on Ash Wednesday, March 5, at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church, 1500 Brookdale Road, Naperville, to mark the ...

Here is an easy how-to if you would like to plan your own simple family retreat this holy season. Lent is obviously an ideal ...

In Catholic churches ... and Scripture reading," Zwicky said. After Ash Wednesday, Swichtenberg said Catholics observe Lent through prayer, alms and fasting. But, most importantly, Lent is ...