Engaging in Great Lent involves dedication to repentance, confession, prayer, and fasting, all of which begin earnestly on Clean Monday, symbolizing spiritual cleansing. The preceding Saturday is ...

March 5 (UPI) --The 40-day season of Lent began as Christian faithful around the world celebrated Ash Wednesday in preparation for Easter.Ashes "revive in us the memory of what we are," but also "the ...

Lenten prayers for Pope Francis. Story by John Rash, Star Tribune • 1w. ... 88 and ailing in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, would be on the minds and prayers of the faithful. ...

Lent, a solemn season in the Christian liturgical calendar, ... The prayers and penance of the faithful are offered not only for their own souls but for the salvation of all souls.

Lenten prayers for Pope Francis. ... As the faithful thanked Pope Francis, he in turn thanked them via a recorded message for St. Peter’s Square worshipers — and the world.

The 2025 Lent season began on Wednesday, March 5 and ends on Thursday, April 17. ... The 40-day season of prayer comes to an end this week just ahead of the Easter holiday.

On Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, ashes — often made from the palm branches of the previous year's Palm Sunday — are applied to the foreheads of the faithful, signifying mortality and ...

While the season of Lent is marked by fasting and abstinence, cooking for a hungry family in this season of prayer and penance "doesn't mean boring or 'fish all the time,'" a Catholic chef told OSV ...

Lent in the Byzantine Church ends on the Friday before Holy Week (which is a separate entity). Sundays are included in the counting period. If you count backwards 40 days you will arrive at the Monday ...

Lent is a 40-day season of prayer, fasting and giving, held in preparation for the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus. This year, Lent begins on March 5 and ends on April 17.

As Catholics around the world celebrated the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday, congregants in Nigeria took a moment to pray for the well-being of Pope Francis, who has been undergoing treatment due ...

The 2025 Lent season began on Wednesday, March 5 and ends on Thursday, April 17. ... The 40-day season of prayer comes to an end this week just ahead of the Easter holiday.