As March begins, the warmer weather of spring and celebration of Easter, this year on Sunday, April 20, are on the way. However, before Easter is 40 days of Lent, one of the liturgical seasons of ...

School children and parishioners observed the start of the somber Lenten season with the Ash Wednesday mass at St. Anthony Cathedral Basilica early in the morning, the congregation emerging from the ...

Christians will celebrate Ash Wednesday is tomorrow, also marking the beginning of the 40-day Lenten season. Christians have observed Lent all across the globe for more than 1,000 years. The first ...

Lent is a penitential season in the church year leading up to Good Friday and Easter. Ashes, usually placed on the forehead as a sign of penitence, come from burned palm fronds Christians will get one ...

Father Ron DeHondt of St. Margaret of Scotland in St. Clair Shores looks forward to Ash Wednesday. “It’s a time when we begin the season of Lent with some simplicity, prayer, fasting and self giving,” ...