The Lenten season begins with Ash Wednesday’s memento mori; its reminder that we are dust and to dust we are destined to return. Nor are such sobering reminders of our mortality restricted to the ...

Lent is my favorite season of the church year. I think this is because its inwardness is so different from what we find around us in our daily lives. There is nothing wrong with daily life, but aren’t ...

In the Christian tradition followers of Jesus are invited to observe the season of Lent. For many it is a purposeful season of self-examination and repentance through prayer, fasting, generosity and a ...

“Then the Lord God took some soil from the ground and formed a man out of it; he breathed life-giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live.” (Genesis 2:7) “You will have to work hard and ...

The Christian season of Lent reminds us of the importance of our origins and our sacred calling as created beings. The word humility comes from the Latin, humilitas meaning lowly. But humilitas ...

Thousands of Oklahomans will don a cross of ashes on their foreheads later this month during Ash Wednesday to observe the beginning of a season of fasting and prayer, or Lent. Here's everything we ...

Today thousands of Christians in Alabama and millions worldwide will observe Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent, the penitential season leading up to the celebration of Easter on April ...

Over a billion Catholics worldwide and a million in the Archdiocese of Atlanta ushered in the beginning of Lent — the most important part of the year for the Catholic Church — while its leader ...

Ash Wednesday is one of the most solemn of Christian dates. It's the start of a weekslong period for the faithful called Lent that comes ahead of one of the most joyous of Christian holidays. Observed ...

If you didn't grow up in a Catholic household, you probably remember being surprised the first time you saw people showing up to work or school with ash marked upon their foreheads. That mark is a ...

Lent is supposed to be a time of reflection and contemplation, but only if you do it right. And I can already say with confidence, barely a few days into this Lenten Season, that I am doing it wrong.