Lent, the 40-day period leading up to Easter, presents an opportunity for believers to engage in a symbolic pilgrimage of sacrifice and renewal. The age-old question resurfaces each year: What to give ...
For when you seek Me, you will find Me" (Jeremiah 28:13-14)... healing your heart’s strife. Great Lent is a pregnancy (mourning menses gone), body spilling nausea with awe for a growing Unknown. As ...
Lent is a period of 40 days of fasting and prayer leading up to Easter. Lent starts on Ash Wednesday and concludes on Holy Saturday, just before Easter Sunday. The word "Lent" comes from the word ...
During Lent, Catholics are also encouraged to undertake some sort of personal penance or abstinence. Examples include giving up sweets, a favorite TV show or not listening to the radio in the car ...
Spring is around the corner, which means the return of the Christian season of Lent. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the 40-day period in which Christians worldwide observe a period of ...
Martin's Lent. The capitularia of Charlemagne ... The liturgical form of Advent as it now exists in the Roman Church has gone through certain modifications. St. Gregory seems to have been the ...