The season lasts for 40 days, ending during Holy Week, the final week before Easter. In the Roman Catholic Church, Lent ends ...
Ash Wednesday marks the start of 40 days of Lent, but what's this Catholic tradition all about and is it still observed in ...
Our traditional Lenten practices can certainly be shared with the younger members of the Church, helping us to pray together ...
was also the one to establish the tradition of marking the foreheads of worshipers with ashes in the shape of the cross on Ash Wednesday. This year's Lent occurs as Pope Francis remains ...
In the early Christian church, Lent was initially ... the pattern of a cross as a reminder of their mortality. The ashes are created by burning palms from the previous year's Palm Sunday.