Lent is a 40-day season of prayer, fasting and giving that Catholics and some other Christian denominations observe as a time of repentance and closeness to God in preparation for the day of ...

For Western churches Lent begins every year on Ash Wednesday. This year it begins on March 1. The date varies from year to year, starting in either late February or early March. However ...

That is our treasure. A priest friend of mine once went into a school on Ash Wednesday worried that the Ash on its own might not tell the whole story to this group of kids. So he mixed some glitter in ...