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According to the Universal Norms for the Liturgical Year and the General Roman Calendar: 27. Lent [is a liturgical season that] is ordered to preparing for the celebration of Easter, since the lenten ...

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 ...

The name Advent (From the Latin word Adventus, which signifies a coming) is applied, in the Latin Church, to that period of the year, during which the Church requires the faithful to prepare for the ...

Though many Catholics may associate the liturgical season of Lent more with the practice of fasting and abstaining from food, many families around the world use the 40-day season to prepare specific ...

Should we have holy water in the fonts during Lent or should they turn into little ash trays? What does the Church say? Like other liturgical seasons, Lent has its own special rules, and there are ...

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.

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 ...

As Lent begins, Louisiana Catholics and other observers will begin dusting off their seafood recipes for Fridays, but the Lenten diet may not be quite as restrictive as many may think. Throughout the ...