We are about a quarter of the way through the season of Lent. So, the words of the column's title are familiar to us as they return each Lent in the prayers of the liturgy and in our own practices ...

Lent is a 40-day season of prayer, fasting and giving, held in preparation for the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus.

Lent, a period of prayer and fasting, begins on Ash Wednesday and ... with Ash Wednesday and continues through Holy Week, the seven days that end with Easter Sunday. Here's what to know.

In addition, by fasting from the temptation to hurry and recklessly rush about, we embrace the Lenten call to grow by living ...

Among these are fasting and abstinence ... Church has set certain days in the year for all Catholics to perform penitential practices together, such as prayer, works of piety and charity, and ...

Ramadan is now well underway and mosques across the UK and elsewhere in the world have full schedules of prayer and ... the next few days, which then indicate the length of fasting between them ...

Lent is a 40-day period of fasting, prayer, and reflection observed by many Christians in preparation for Easter. During Lent, many believers give up certain luxuries — such as sweets ...

Ash Wednesday marks the first day of Lent, an about six-and-a-half-week period of fasting, prayer and charitable giving. “We are called not only to abstain from luxuries during Lent, but to a ...

Lent, a period of prayer, fasting, and giving ... the early Christian church observed Lent over a six-week period or 36 days with fasting except on Sundays. The practice was extended to 42 ...