Today, Lent is marked by a time of prayer and preparation as Christians "walk with Christ" for 40 days to His cross. The number 40 is connected with many biblical events, but especially with the ...

The Wondrous Cross is CT’s 2022 special issue for Lent and Easter. Each of the articles in this series draws upon a piece of music to reflect on Jesus’ death and resurrection—to wrestle with ...

Lent invites us to gain perspective by facing our mortality. Watts published his hymn in 1707, and it may be the most well known of the more than 600 songs he wrote.

Lent in the liturgical calendar is a 40 day season set aside to observe and commemorate the last weeks of Christ’s ministry before His crucifixion and resurrection.

Fr. Patrick Mary Briscoe, O.P., reflects on John 3:16 and explain why the Fourth Sunday of Lent is different than the other Sundays of the liturgical season of Lent.

WHEN I SURVEY THE WONDROUS CROSS: Scriptural Reflections for Lent Patrick J. Ryan, . . Paulist, $14.95 (160pp) ISBN 978-0-8091-4207-1 ...

It was love that motivated Jesus some 2,000 years ago to embrace his cross, carry it to Golgotha, and offer himself completely for our salvation. He was not forced to do this. He is God.

During Lent my mind turns naturally towards the hill where Jesus hung on the cross. There was an earlier hill which Luke tells us about. When Jesus began his ministry he taught in the synagogue of ...

What if Jesus’ cross really is a healing burden? John tells us, in the gospel read at the liturgy for the Fourth Sunday of Lent, that God did not send the Son to judge the world — krino, in Greek.