Ash Wednesday begins the Christian season of Lent. The 6-week period is a tectonic time of year leading up to Easter. What we ...

The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on the Thursday before Easter Sunday. This year, Ash Wednesday and the ...

"It's deeper than abstaining from ice cream," said Fr. Bill Swichtenberg of St. Mary Catholic Community in Appleton.

The Troparion to Saint Theodore is quite similar to the Troparion for the Prophet Daniel and the Three Holy Youths (December ...

Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday and the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem ... That includes 82 percent of Catholics who regularly attend service as well as 30 percent of Protestants.” Eastern Orthodox ...

Palm Sunday services, April 13 at 11 a.m. in the chapel, will be led by Army Materiel Command Chaplain (Col.) Stanton Trotter and will celebrate Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem on a donkey, ...

Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Church, has zealously backed Russia’s ‘special military operation’ and castigates a morally ...

The country is currently indulging in Tsiknopempti, one of the most important dates on the calendar in Greece.

"Christianity did not start in Rome, Wittenburg, or Canterbury.... It started in Palestine."A new film 'Via Dolorosa', shown ...

It's almost time. Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania will soon celebrate Lent with fish frys on Ash Wednesday and every ...

Later that night, after sundown – because Passover began at sundown- the Holy Thursday Liturgy takes place, marking the end of Lent and the beginning of the sacred "Triduum,” or three ...