Works of charity would also be a good idea, the announcement says, suggesting Catholics take advantage of volunteer opportunities at their parish or local Catholic Charities, spend fellowship time ...

(Photo: Paula Katinas) FLUSHING — Jayden Moreta, a seventh grader at St. Mel’s Catholic Academy in Flushing, gave up chocolate for Lent. He said he misses it but feels he gained a lot more when he ...

(RNS) — With a Catholic ... to purple Lenten ones. The deacon from the Diocese of Beaumont, Texas, copies Lamar’s walking dance steps with his daughter backing him up in altar server surplice.

Lent is the time before Easter during which ... it is important that the Catholic would speak with a priest or spiritual director. Any act of penance that would seriously hinder one's health ...

This recipe is part of a Lent 2025 series where National Catholic Reporter staff will share some of their favorite meatless meals. Sign up for the EarthBeat Reflections email newsletter to receive ...

Port Victoria, 22 March, 2025 / 10:16 pm (ACI Africa). The Lenten Season is a spiritual pilgrimage during which the people to journey with Christ in hope amid challenges of life, Bishop Alain Harel of ...

Keywords: lent catholic living liturgical living Father Jeffrey Kirby Father Jeffrey Kirby, STD, is the pastor of Our Lady of Grace parish in Indian Land, South Carolina, and the host of the ...

In Senegal’s capital, Dakar, Souleymane Ndiaye, a Muslim, invited his Catholic friend Rodrigue Sagna ... the rare overlap of Ramadan and Lent is seen by many families as an opportunity to ...

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 is a significant period in the Catholic faith marked by fasting, abstinence, and spiritual reflection. One of the primary dietary restrictions Catholics observe during this time is abstaining ...

For Christians, Lent – the six-week period leading up to Easter – is a time of spiritual reflection and preparation, marked by prayer and fasting. In Alappuzha in Kerala, a Catholic church is ...

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a ...