Yes, Ash Wednesday begins the season of Lent, a time of fasting, prayer and almsgiving in preparation for the waters of ...

In 1930s England, when Christianity was losing ground among the intelligentia, T.S. Eliot’s poem “Ash Wednesday” reaffirmed ...

The Lenten ritual is six weeks of abstinence and fasting that emerged out of pagan practices. The word itself derived from ...

It’s not every day when people walk around expressing their faith and acknowledging sinfulness on their foreheads, but that’s ...

The day that begins the Lenten season is called Ash Wednesday. Here are four things to know about it. 1. Origin of the tradition of using ashes On Ash Wednesday, many Christians have ashes put on ...