“Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.” At the Mass for Ash Wednesday, that refrain is prayed after each verse of the ...

From handbell choirs to Easter cantatas; solemn services to community egg hunts, churches across Hancock County are preparing to welcome in Holy Week with both reverence and celebration.

In the Christian season of Lent we pray, contemplate, and try to remain mindful of God’s blessings of abundance, and the ...

As we move toward Holy Week, these readings invite us to approach the mysteries with eyes ready to perceive God's love ...

Only 10 days are left until the end of Lent, an annual 40-day Christian period leading up to Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

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Christians around the world enter into the solemn observance of Holy Week, the most sacred period in the liturgical calendar.

As we journey through the season of Lent, the Fifth Sunday invites us to reflect deeply on the themes of transformation, ...

Young adults at Immaculate Conception Church pray the daily rosary during Lent. Led by Ava Earnhart, the group meets ...

It is chanted in all Orthodox Churches throughout the world during the five Fridays in Great Lent and constitutes a very ...

My friend’s church has initiated a novel Lenten practice, which is to write a letter every day in Lent and mail it: 40 ...

While Lent is a period of joyful anticipation of the Resurrection, it has also been described as a “detoxification period” ...