Lent comes around each year and presents us with the challenge to take stock of our lives, to see more clearly what is in our ...

Easter Sunday moves around the calendar. Here's why this culmination of Holy Week can take place between March 22 and April ...

Lent began on Ash Wednesday, March 5. We have 40 days to prepare ourselves for the Triduum by allowing God to purify us ...

Over two thousand years, the church has developed some excellent traditions to help us benefit from this time. Here are the top four.

Thus, in today’s Gospel passage, Jesus promises that, when he is no longer in the flesh, his disciples will prepare ...

The call to self-examination and repentance could not have come at a more critical time given upheavals, divisions, ...

Santa Monica Seafood workers begin their daily routines by loading up trucks to deliver seafood products to supermarkets and ...

Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, Christianity's 40-day season of prayer, fasting and giving in preparation for Jesus ...

Our traditional Lenten practices can certainly be shared with the younger members of the Church, helping us to pray together ...

For those who observe Lent annually, it can be challenging to think of new ideas of what they will give up each winter.

Perhaps this could be the year you embrace the season if it’s new to you. Lent is, fundamentally, a time to prepare for Easter. Recalling Jesus’ 40 days in the wilderness, during which he was ...

Why do Christians take part in Lent? Lent is a time to prepare for the celebration of Easter (April 20 this year), marked by 40 days, excluding Sundays, of reflection, repentance, sacrifice and ...