As we celebrate Purim this year, we should embrace both the joy and the responsibility that come with it. Mordechai’s ...

Ashes in the Bible serve as symbolic physical reminders of our short earthly lifespan compared to the heavenly eternity of ...

When pronouncing these judgments, Jesus makes reference to sackcloth and ashes as a form of penitence. As early as the ninth ...

During that time they did acts of penance, like extra praying and fasting, and lying “in sackcloth and ashes,” as an outward action expressing interior sorrow and repentance. The customary time to ...

An important day in the life of the Christian liturgical calendar is Ash Wednesday, which is this Wednesday, March 5. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, which is the forty-day journey “in the ...

We usually give up something for Lent, and so much already has been taken away. Forty days of fasting and regret seems ...

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a 40-day period of fasting, prayer, and self-reflection for Christians worldwide.

Catholics observe Lent through fasting and abstinence, avoiding meat on specific days. These are some of the permitted foods.

From suits and blazers to street clothes, those of all politics shared in a moment representing the beginning of Lent.