At the beginning of his public life, Jesus was baptized by his cousin John the Baptist in the Jordan River. John was a prophet and a preacher, and he urged people to be baptized as a sign of their ...

After this year’s extended period of Ordinary Time, Christian believers will soon begin the penitential season of Lent. St. Luke tells us that after his baptism, the Lord Jesus was “filled with the ...

Christians worldwide are celebrating Lent by fasting and repenting while abstaining from luxuries. The period began on Ash Wednesday (February 14) and lasts for 40 days. By the time Lent is over, ...

As the Mardi Gras celebration ends, so begins the solemn period of Lent observed in many Christian circles and denominations. Timed weeks in advance of Easter Sunday, or the day of Jesus' resurrection ...

Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. The Christian season of Lent is well underway, after beginning last month. Christians ...

Editor’s Note: Visit EWTN’s special website on Lent for the current penitential rules and further background on the season. I am always hunting through the past for interesting corners of Catholic ...

Alvin Yesudas, a Catholic in the southern Indian state of Kerala, began Lent on Ash Wednesday. His neighbor Babu Antony, also a Catholic, started two days earlier. During Lent, both their families ...

Lent is the period of forty days which comes before Easter in the Christian calendar, traditionally a time of fasting and reflection. It is preceded by Shrove Tuesday and begins with Ash Wednesday.

On Ash Wednesday—Feb. 22 this year— it is traditional for Roman Catholics to go to church, where a priest will put ashes made from burnt palms on their foreheads in the shape of a cross. The ritual ...

(RNS) — Without disciplines like corporate confession and Lent, there is little within popular evangelicalism to restrain the triumphalism of white American culture from overshadowing the cross of ...