Here’s when Easter and the easter weekend will fall this year - and why Easter and Good Friday are slightly later in 2025. Lent for the year 2025 began on Wednesday, March 5, and will end on Thursday, ...

A friend once asked me, “What are you giving up for Lent this year?” and I said, “This year for Lent I’m just giving up.” ...

This Sunday is a day of some significance in the world’s two dominant religions, Christianity and Islam. For Christians it is ...

This year is a Jubilee year in the Catholic Church with the theme of being pilgrims of hope. How can we envision this holy ...

In many Catholic parishes, people are gathering for Friday night fish fries because they abstain from eating meat on Fridays during Lent. In Muslim homes, people are gathering every evening ...

Hopefully when this article is published, March will be heading out like a lamb, or so the old saying goes. We will usher in April with its showers and then May with its flowers… ok, I’ll stop with ...

Ramadan and its official end falls close to another Abrahamic religion's end of season Lent, and with it Good Friday and ...

Most believers consider abstinence and fasting as helpful to their faith and as acts similar to prayer, survey finds ...

A: Contrary to popular thinking, Ash Wednesday is not a holy day of obligation. You do not have to go to Mass that day or ...

Archbishop Hebda said that the word for humility comes from the Latin word “humus,” for earth or ground. To him, there’s an immediate connection between humility and the spreading of the ashes on Ash ...

Both religions’ traditions encourage giving up physical things, such as food, drink, pleasures or indulgences, in order to ...