On Ash Wednesday, March 5, ashes were spread across people’s foreheads, and the person spreading the ashes said, “Remember ...

Scientists have found previously undocumented ash deposits buried beneath the Lava Creek Tuff in Wyoming — and at least one ...

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Our work is holy, even if it is imperfect and even when it yields nothing more than seemingly useless gray matter.The post The offering of ash, and the optimism to ...

Although a recent study reveals that Lent is largely ignored by many Christians in the United States, there is a trend among ...

Year C in the lectionary, Palm Sunday is cancelled, so you need to do away with your palm crosses, and change the choice of ...

What are your intentions behind Lent? Having started on March 5 on Ash Wednesday, this religious season is celebrated by many ...

Oscar winner Barry Jenkins will direct A24’s “Be My Baby,” a biographical drama about Ronnie Spector. Zendaya, who has been attached to the project since 2020, will portray the ’60s music ...

In many Catholic parishes, people are gathering for Friday night fish fries because they abstain from eating meat on Fridays during Lent. In Muslim homes, people are gathering every evening for iftar ...

Those observing Lent typically refrain from eating flesh meat on Ash Wednesday and each Friday ... the fasting Jesus did while in the desert. "Abstinence is a form of penance.