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

A cluster of new and forthcoming titles, including devotionals and other works by popular Christian pastors, theologians, and ...

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

For the fullness of Beauty is the Lord Jesus ... Cross at every Eucharistic Sacrifice. The language we use at Mass helps us to appreciate this wondrous privilege and to celebrate the infinite love ...

On Ash Wednesday, worshippers attend a special church service where they receive ashes on their foreheads in the shape of a cross ... referring to Jesus' new commandment to love one another as He ...

In his catechesis, the Holy Father also reflected on how Jesus’ parents, Mary and Joseph, had to mature in their own ...

Made of ashes and earth, we experience fragility through illness, poverty, and the hardships that can suddenly befall us and ...

The 40-day period of Lent starts with Ash Wednesday. See the 2025 dates, and why and how Christians observe the religious holidays.

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

Christians have been urged to use this Lenten season to embrace the values of sharing, sacrificing, praying and loving one another.Traditionally a time for spiritual self-examination and personal ...

Cardinal Wilton Gregory (at right), the retiring archbishop of Washington, dispenses ashes to Cardinal Robert McElroy, the ...