Lent is a period of 40 days of fasting and prayer leading up to Easter. Lent starts on Ash Wednesday and concludes ... in AD 325 to keep it in line with the Jewish Passover and the Bible's timeline of ...

In the preparatory season leading up to Easter, the celebration of Christ's resurrection, almsgiving helps believers prepare spiritually by aligning their hearts with the selfless love and generosity ...

A month before his unexpected death in January 2024, Bennett Kotok, a former St. Thomas Academy in Mendota Heights student ...

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the 40-day period in which Christians worldwide observe a period of reflection, prayer ...

Celebrating the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Pope Francis reaffirmed the Catholic Church's willingness to accept a ...

Catholics and Christians will give up something they enjoy or something they feel like they should stop. Many Catholics also abstain from eating meat on Fridays during Lent. Easter Sunday will ...

Just days into 2025 and major retailers have already started dropping this year's Easter line-up, with supermarket shelves seeing the return of fan-favourites like Mini Eggs and Creme Eggs. But ...

After last year’s polarising hot cross buns, Coles has released its second collaboration with Arnott’s - bringing an “Aussie classic” to supermarket shelves for Easter. From Monday ...

Listed by UNESCO as Intangible World Heritage, the country's Holy Week is one of the world’s most exuberant Easter celebrations ... measuring up to 80ft long and weighing as much as a ...