As Catholics journey towards Calvary, they undertake many particular practices and devotions during the Lenten season.

Ash Wednesday is a special day when Christian faithful mark the beginning of the Lent season that is observed in the 40 days ...

T he leader of southeastern Michigan's Catholics stood in the aisle at a historic church in downtown Detroit on Wednesday ...

Lent, the season of penitence, is the preparation of the soul to accompany the Lord in the Passion. It begins now, and ...

Catholics observe Lent through fasting and abstinence, avoiding meat on specific days. These are some of the permitted foods.

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a 40-day period of fasting and ... The ashes placed in the sign of a cross on worshipers' foreheads on Ash Wednesday are supposed to be made from last ...

It's Ash Wednesday, the start of the Lent and fish Friday traditions. Ash Wednesday is a day of repentance, marked by ashes being placed on a worshiper's forehead in the shape of a cross by a ...

Though many Catholics may associate the liturgical season of Lent more with the practice of ... life of Jesus Christ as he made his way to the cross. Capirotada, which is similar to a bread ...

Lent 2025: Why people walk around with a smudged cross of ashes on their foreheads on Lent and why do Christians give things up for this festival before Easter? Why do Christians mark themselves ...

The wooden cross, which is six metres tall and three metres wide, was raised today to mark Shrove Tuesday (March 4) and the start of the 40 days of Lent – a religious ceremony which takes place ...

Decked in a purple robe symbolizing the Lenten season ... the burned remains of palm branches on their foreheads, drawing a cross. "Repent and believe in the gospel," Vigneron said to each of ...