For Catholics, Lent means a period of sacrifice. Often, we think of this in terms of food: abstaining from meat on Fridays (hence the popularity of fish and monggo among Filipinos), or temporarily ...

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Lent starts Wednesday, Feb. 22 this year, and with it a mix of different traditions that lead up all the way to Easter. The classic Christian holiday has been going on for longer than you might expect ...

In a few days, we will enter into the time of Lent, lasting from Ash Wednesday through Holy Week. The name for this season comes from the Old English word "lencten" which means spring. Lent takes ...

After an extended Ordinary Time, Christian believers will soon begin the penitential season of Lent. It will begin with the rather stark, annual observance of Ash Wednesday. Lent is a time of ...

The Church says that Lent is a 40-day period of unity with "the mystery of Jesus in the desert." By sacrificing small things, as well as fasting, praying, and giving to charity, Catholics are ...

Lenten bulletins in Catholic parishes on Sunday carried ... would require Washington insurers offering maternity care to also cover elective abortions as well as contraception.

Mac DeMarco has teamed up with his good friend and occasional keyboardist Jon Lent for an exceptionally chill cover of James Taylor's 1975 track "I Was A Fool To Care." ...

Two Episcopal priests have turned NCAA March Madness brackets into a competition of saints The priests chose both official saints and people whose lives offered values worth emulating During Lent ...