Lent traditionally lasts 40 days in the Western Christian calendar, not including Sundays. However, the total period from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday is 46 days, because Sundays are not counted ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Next week, Ash Wednesday will start the Lent season. Friday, Holy Name Men's Club kicked off the fish fry events at the Holy Name Church. People can stop by and get some fried fish until 8 p.m ...

As Lent begins, Chicagoans ... Candy Frigo, 70, receives ashes Wednesday from Terry Nelson-Johnson, pastoral minister at Old St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, at Mary Bartelme Park on the Near West ...

The church, with the approval of its board and members, is working with a unique nonprofit called Undue Medical Debt, founded in 2014 by two debt collectors with the goal of reducing the burden of ...