Though many don't traditionally associate Carnival Season with Easter, the monthslong celebration that includes Mardi Gras ...

The occasion provides a special opportunity for a gathering of the members of the community to mark the joyful event and to thank God, from whom all blessings come, for the gift of a new home.

The leader may use these or similar words to introduce the blessing: This tree is a blessing to our home. It reminds us of all that is beautiful, all that is filled with the gentleness and the ...

Lent is a period of 40 days of fasting and prayer leading up to Easter. Lent starts on Ash Wednesday and ... The ashes are typically made by burning the palms from the previous year's Palm Sunday. The ...

Every year in February and March, you'll see people walking around with black smudges on their foreheads. There's a simple reason for it – it's Ash Wednesday, an important season for Christians. Ash ...

Sadly that is not always the case but it is what God wants and I feel very blessed to be part of a church family that strives to fulfil that calling. The Blessing of Inclusion in Family Life Being ...

Sundays are for bracing for the February half-term week here in the UK, during which schools are closed and parents must occupy kids while it's still mostly cold and rainy outside. Quick, tidy the ...

The Vatican says it is unclear how long Pope Francis will stay in hospital and he will not lead Sunday’s Angelus prayer after he was admitted on Friday with a respiratory tract infection.

In “The Revolutionary Self,” the historian Lynn Hunt explores the way 18th-century culture transformed our sense of power in the world. By Marjoleine Kars Set in a rapidly warming valley ...

will not appear in public on Sunday to lead his usual weekly prayer with pilgrims, the Vatican said. The pontiff, 88, has been suffering from bronchitis for more than a week and was admitted to ...

Sir Keir Starmer is taking a Ukraine peacekeeping plan to Donald Trump next week, it can be revealed. The PM is due to visit the White House next week, and is expected to detail to the American ...

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