Highlight the “smells and bells” of the season. Lent is full of opportunities to ... Point out the covered statues on Passion Sunday, the use of light and darkness during the Triduum, the ...

Lent 2025: why are Christians observing it and when does it end? - Deciding what to give up for Lent is a personal choice, ...

Jesus was part of the crowd around John and was baptized by John. In Luke’s account, in prayer and subsequent to his baptism, ...

“Praying the stations joins us, in this season of repentance and sorrow ... Catholics are encouraged to use Lent as a time of preparation and detaching oneself from worldly desires.

PHOTOS: Catholic Church opens Lent season with words of solidarity for ... cough vigorously enough to expel the fluid. Doctors often use noninvasive ventilation to stave off intubation or the ...

Jones explained that while sometimes technology can be used as a distraction ... follow during Lent, Pope Francis encouraged everyone to "journey together in hope" this Lenten season and to ...

Before Easter arrives each spring, there is a period of time that the Church observes known as Lent. Throughout this ... the apps are gone, you can use that time to talk with Jesus.

(Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer) More than any other dish, capirotada is a dessert identified as the most traditional of Mexican cuisine during the Lent season ... began to be used in recipes.” ...

KAMPALA - Kampala Catholic archbishop Paul Ssemogerere has urged believers to make use of ;Lent to pray for the nation. Lent is a 40-day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins on ...

Many people use Lent as a season to either give up some small pleasure, like chocolate or cake, or resolve to do something extra, like helping a neighbor or volunteering at a food bank.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Catholic Church opened the solemn Lenten season leading to Easter on Wednesday without ... De Donatis said the ashes that observant Catholics receive on the first day of Lent ...

VATICAN CITY — The Catholic Church opened the solemn Lenten season leading to Easter on Wednesday ... Catholics receive on the first day of Lent are reminders that “our lives are fragile ...