Courtesy of Watts and Co. (photo: Courtesy of Watts and Co.) Jack Figge Features March 4, 2025 For 40 days every Lenten season, purple linens adorn the altar, and priests don violet chasubles for ...

We sell our faith short, and so we sell our Lent short. At least I do. I have spent most of my life thinking of the faith as ...

With a Catholic clergy Lenten dance trend, a callout by pastor and Sen. Raphael Warnock and a prominent place in sermons by ...

The Vatican has released the first photograph of the pope in more than a month, showing Pope Francis wearing a purple Lenten ...

Still, very little is discussed about Lenten adornments, aside from splashes of purple owing to the creative challenges presented by the pared-down season. Lent is not impeded upon by Easter in ...

Discover the profound spiritual journey of Etty Hillesum (1914–1943), a Dutch Jewish writer whose WWII diaries reveal ...

The long tables are set with white cloths and purple ribbons down the middle. Bouquets of daffodils alternate with baskets of hot cross buns.

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Playing off a secular dance trend, as the first riffs from “Not Like Us” begin, Workman changes from green Ordinary Time vestments to purple Lenten ones. The deacon from the Diocese of ...