As Catholics journey towards Calvary, they undertake many particular practices and devotions during the Lenten season.

Each year, Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent. This year, Ash Wednesday will be on March 5. Ash Wednesday centres on ...

Lent includes 40 days of fasting and six Sundays counted as feast days. The first day of the season is Ash Wednesday when ...

The Vatican have this evening provided an update on the health of Pope Francis a day after he suffered multiple 'respiratory ...

Lent ends on Holy Saturday, just before Easter Sunday. The word "Lent" comes from the word "lecten" which is Anglo-Saxon meaning "spring" and refers to the lengthening of days. During the Lenten ...

Lent is the time before Easter during which the faithful abstain and fast in remembrance of the ultimate sacrifice Jesus made on Calvary. It is a 40-day time of preparation before Easter ...

Single-shaming customs were especially prevalent in Munster with the 'Skellig Lists' mocking, teasing and insulting unmarried ...

During Lent, we should give our lives to God, in the hope that we will receive them back again, not for a time, but for eternity. The difficulties we go through are terrible and temporary. We make our ...

to the glory of your name. Laudamus te, benedicimus te, adoramus te, glorificamus te, gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam, Domine Deus, Rex caelestis, Deus Pater omnipotens. Domine Fili ...