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

They abstain from food and wear sackcloth and ashes as a sign of mourning and penance. They are liturgically literate and ritually right. They want to draw closer to God, and this is the way they ...

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

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 ...

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

It’s not every day when people walk around expressing their faith and acknowledging sinfulness on their foreheads, but that’s ...

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.