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.

In the Orthodox calendar there are special memorial days - Parents' Saturdays. One of them precedes Shrovetide and Great Lent ...

The observance marks the start of lent, the season leading up to Easter; it's is one of five key periods on the Catholic liturgical calendar ... days of abstinence. Children 14 and older are ...

"It's deeper than abstaining from ice cream," said Fr. Bill Swichtenberg of St. Mary Catholic Community in Appleton.

Lent ends with Holy Week and Easter Sunday, an important day in the Christian calendar that honors the ... for Passover on Monday night, the Orthodox Jewish community in Lakewood burned all ...

The Brazilians know how to party and each year during Lent, Rio de Janeiro hosts the ... Science Festival is great for families with young kids and Edinburgh's Hogmanay (New Year) celebrations ...

As the Easter season approaches, the cost for a carton of eggs is high and supply is low. Here are five fun alternatives to ...

The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on the Thursday before Easter Sunday. This year, Ash Wednesday and the ...

This year, Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent fall in March ... and its related holidays also depend on if you’re Eastern Orthodox or not. The Eastern Orthodox Church uses the Julian calendar, a ...