Birch trees have been used to decorate a church for Pentecost in a tradition dating back 200 years. The trees from Longleat Forest, on the Longleat estate in Wiltshire, owned by Ceawlin Thynn, the ...

St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Aurora celebrated the first Sunday in Lent, March 9, by welcoming a new senior pastor. The Rev. Krista Zimmerman was welcomed at a reception following 10 a.m. worship.

Lent begins on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (Ash Wednesday) and ends at sundown on Thursday, April 17 (Holy Thursday). Dates may differ depending on what calendar a church is using and how they ...

Christians in the Coptic Orthodox Church prepare for Lent by feasting. For ten days before the Great Lent begins, we consume the food from which we’ll soon abstain.

Number 40. Lent lasts for 40 days and nights each year, ending with Holy Week and Easter. This period of time reflects the 40 days that, according to the Gospels, Jesus spent in the wilderness ...

In his recent book Lent: The Season of Repentance and Renewal, Esau McCaulley discusses how, although he was raised in a non-liturgical Black Baptist church, he has since rediscovered the beauty ...

4. Seek out those in need. Christ told us, “You will always have poor people with you” (Matthew 26:11). This was an admonition to always care for those less fortunate than ourselves.

Yet now is precisely the time to think about it so that you can take full advantage of those 40 precious days marked out by the Church for your benefit. Lent is a sacred time during which we are ...

As U.S. Christians enter the six-week Lenten season beginning on March 5, a neutral observer might be excused for wondering what in the world is going on within American Christianity.

The Rev. Dr. John McCants Jr., pastor of St. Paul AME Church, said Lent is about preparation. "Lent is to the resurrection of Christ what Advent is to Christmas and the birth of Christ," he said.

Ash Wednesday has come and gone and Lent has begun. With it comes memes about fasting and the oddities of what the Church does and doesn’t consider meat. Lent is a significant period in the ...