Sunday, March 16, is the Second Sunday of Lent. Mass readings: Genesis 15:5-12, 17-18; Psalm 27:1, 7-8, 8-9, 13-14; ...

The Church gives us the holy season of Lent each year to help us to step back, to slow down and take stock of our lives.

ONE of the Church’s steadfast companions on the journey of Lent has customarily been the penitential psalms. These are the ...

Lent is our time to allow divine love to touch us so deeply that we begin to see like Jesus did, and thus act in his name.

I was reading the psalm for this next Sunday (the 2nd Sunday in Lent) and the plea to God, “Do not cast me off” is what ...

Over two thousand years, the church has developed some excellent traditions to help us benefit from this time. Here are the ...

Lent shouldn't be necessary. That's what St. Benedict of Nursia, the great father of monks, thought at least. Jesus commanded us to deny ourselves and take up our cross daily. In response, ...

How might Herod be an authentically biblical “fox”? If the reference in Nehemiah is anything to go by, he is a lightweight, ...

Lent begins Wednesday, March 5, marking 40 days of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Catechumens, influenced by Islam and ...

Here’s the origin of Ash Wednesday, Lent, Good Friday and Easter, when Lent ends and why the dates they fall on change every year.