While not as well known as Christmas carols and Christmas music, music during the liturgical season of Lent plays a key role, a priest and musician told Fox News Digital. "Music plays a threefold role ...

Oratorios, unique chants and pilgrimages help to grow the faith of Sri Lankan Catholics during the Lenten season. Father Nirmal Malaka Silva organized Daughter of Zion, a new Sinhala oratorio that ...

Barbara Fernando worries about not being able to follow her Lenten practices these days. The 77-year-old Sri Lankan Catholic visits churches with her group during the Lenten season to sing Pasam ...

WASHINGTON — At the beginning of this Lenten season, some Catholics in the United States were singing the hymn “Ashes” and announcing, “We rise again from ashes to create ourselves anew.” Although ...

When people in church raise their voices in song, it's like praying, twice. That thinking has been traced to St. Augustine and is the basis of a new program for Lent at Church of Peace United Church ...

Denver — This past Sunday, Feb. 17 marked the start of Sundays known as the “Gesimas”: Septuagesima Sunday, followed by Sexagesima Sunday, and Quinquagesima Sunday. Septuagesima kicks off a period ...