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

The liturgy of Ash Wednesday has come to tell us something new about time, our time, and to invite us into a new ...

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

Some refer to Ash Wednesday and Lent as the “40 days and 40 nights” period that Jesus is said in the bible to have spent ...

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

The collect, the set prayer for Ash Wednesday, insists that we are ‘lamenting our sins ... Trumpet sounds fade and we trudge onward trying just a little harder. Writing about Lent, the poet Geoffrey ...

Ash Wednesday is a religious observance most strongly ... and regulations that banned alcohol and even reading “lascivious poetry and romances” and “improper dances” like quickstep ...

Lent is a time of renewal for the whole Church, for each community and every believer.” — Pope Francis As the Lenten season ...

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (Michigan) delivered the Democratic Party’s response to President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, laying out her national security bona ...