| News articles |
The Daily News of Newburyport
The tradition of receiving ashes to mark the first day of Lent
goes back hundreds of years, but ashes to go marks a new movement in
the Episcopal church. Six years ago, the pastor of an Episcopal church
in St. Louis, Mo., took to the streets on the ...
Los Angeles Times
Fat Tuesday will give way to a more solemn occasion -- Ash Wednesday -- and then a 40-day period of self-sacrifice known as Lent. Fat Tuesday, the English translation of the French "Mardi Gras," signals the official end of Carnival season, ...
BurlingtonFreePress.com
A
seven-week study of spiritual growth and maturity in the book series
"The Chronicles of Narnia" by CS Lewis will be offered throughout Lent at the University of Vermont. The study will take place Thursdays starting this week through April 5 and will ...
Nigerian Observer
He said lent
was a period for sober reflection and renewal of faith and trust in
God. The archbishop renewed his call for the return of mission schools
to their original owners as part of strategies to revive the country's
falling standard of education ...
| Blog posts |
Great Lent | Thomas Howard | From Evangelical Is Not Enough: Worship of God In Liturgy and Sacrament | Ignatius Insight Presently Lent arrives. This is the forty days leading up to Easter, which also recall the forty days of Christ's temptation ...
The 40 days of Lent that lead to Easter are the
most sacred and spiritually powerful in the Christian calendar. From the
Ash Wednesday reminder to 'remember that you are dust, and to dust you
shall return,' to the the Stations of the Cross on ...
Each year, when we start talking about Lent and Easter, we hear a familiar question from some Bible Gateway visitors: What is Lent? Is it an official Christian holiday? Was it instituted in the Bible? What does it mean to observe Lent, and are ...
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