Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, an important time for Christians leading up to Easter. Here's what to know.

Lent 2025: when does it start and why do Christians observe it? - Deciding what to give up for Lent is a personal choice, ...

Lent came early last year, but it is back to a bit more normal schedule for 2025. Here's a look when Fat Tuesday, Ash ...

Ash Wednesday is the first day of the season of Lent that leads up to Good Friday and Easter. What to know about the day.

Holy Saturday marks the end of the Lenten season on April 19, it is a time to mourn the death of Jesus and to prepare for his ...

The six-week period is meant to be celebrated with self-sacrifice, prayer and ... when fasting is not practiced. During Lent, Catholics and Christians will give up something they enjoy ...

OVERBURDENED clergy should not allow Lent ... prayer, so that, each week, participants have the chance to practise a way of praying that is unfamiliar to them, reporting back at the group meeting. Or ...

I’ve known such churches to promote the use of a 40-day devotional/prayer journal to give congregants a tool to prompt worship, confession (sometimes fasting which is a traditional Lenten practice), ...

Lent is the time before Easter during which the faithful abstain and fast in remembrance of the ... Examples include giving up sweets, a favorite TV show or not listening to the radio in the ...