When is Mardi Gras and what it celebrates When and what is Ash Wednesday When and what is Lent When Irish and non-Irish alike celebrate St. Patrick's Day and why The beginning of March launches the ...

If you are wondering when Lent is, don't worry there is still a month before the religious event. In 2024, Lent and Easter came early. The start of the 2024 Lenten season, Ash Wednesday, actually fell ...

Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent, falls on Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Lent is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter Sunday, which ends on the Thursday before Easter. This year, ...

The Lent season is coming to a close, which means Easter is just a skip and a hop away. Holy Week starts even sooner. Kicking off with Palm Sunday this weekend, Holy Week is a sacred time for many ...

Easter is a significant day on the Christian calendar. Billions of Christians look forward to Easter Sunday each year, and that anticipation is amplified by Lent. Lent is a 40-day period preceding ...

This year, Easter Sunday is observed on April 20. Why do people celebrate Easter? Easter is one of the principle if not the most important holidays in the Christian religion because it observes the ...

Ash Wednesday is the first day of the Lenten calendar. The name is representative of the tradition for practicing Christians to have their foreheads marked with ashes during Ash Wednesday services.

When you ask someone what their religion is, the chance that they will say "none" has increased dramatically in the past few decades. Religiosity used to be a defining characteristic of U.S. culture.

“You invited them in?” I’d chuckled to my mother-in-law. Visiting from Brooklyn, I’d found her, teapot in hand, deep in conversation with proselytizing strangers who’d rung her Cincinnati doorbell.

Christians will find themselves celebrating love and sacrifice on the same day. Valentine's Day and Ash Wednesday fall on the same day, Wednesday, Feb. 14, this year. The occasion may lead some to ...

When I was 4, I told my mother that I was running away and would never come back. She replied that any child of hers who ran away and never came back would receive a punishment she/he would never ...