Easter falls on the first Sunday after the full moon that occurs on or after the spring equinox. This year, Easter is Sunday, ...

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If you want to have a fruitful, holy Lenten season, I highly recommend you do not: 1. Attempt absurd penances. Not all ...

On the last day before Great Lent, Orthodox believers celebrate Forgiveness Sunday, or the week of Syropustnaya. On this day ...

Wooster Square's Italian immigrants embraced the spirit of Lent by drawing on familiar practices, writes columnist.

Psalm 32:3-4 encapsulates how he was feeling. “When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For ...

Lent, a 40-day season commemorating the time Jesus spent fasting in the desert, begins on Ash Wednesday, March 5. On Fridays ...

Ash Wednesday is the Wednesday that always follows Mardi Gras. As you'll have read in our article on this feast, Mardi Gras ...

US-based quick-service restaurant chain Long John Silver's is offering shrimp specials including coconut butterfly shrimp for ...

On Fridays in March and April, St. Michael's Orthodox Church in Binghamton will be serving pirohis and other traditional ...

Rockwell Beer Company is kicking off fish fry season early with its "Fish Fry Light Lager." The beer will hit store shelves ...

It wasn't exactly New Orleans, but Catholics in the St. John Valley liked to stir up mischief before the start of Lent.