(WTVF) — It’s the first Sunday of Lent, a time when many Christian believers choose to temporarily give something up for the period between Ash Wednesday ... into his sermons during Lent.

From handbell choirs to Easter cantatas; solemn services to community egg hunts, churches across Hancock County are preparing to welcome in Holy Week with both reverence and celebration.

With a Catholic clergy Lenten dance trend, a callout by pastor and Sen. Raphael Warnock and a prominent place in sermons by ...

The service was held in Goggins Fieldhouse, led by Smela who discussed the connection between death, the meaning of Ash Wednesday, and the Lent season during his sermon. “When death happens in ...

Lent 2025 is also marked by record participation in Ash Wednesday Masses in France and a record number ... of the lectures along with young Father Henri Lacordaire, whose Lenten preaching became an ...

On Ash Wednesday, faithful Catholics receive ashes in the shape of a cross on their foreheads, a powerful reminder of human mortality. During his sermon to the congregants, Father Ugwo noted that ...

Road to Recovery: Nashville church shares 12-step program teachings in sermons during Lent It ... give something up for the period between Ash Wednesday and Easter. However, a Nashville church ...

“It is less than honest to maintain that a Lent of 40 days is the final word for our age,” he said in an Ash Wednesday sermon. “The Lenten diet is now possible only in exclusively religious ...

Most share his interactions with different people, his miracles, his teaching and sermons and parables ... Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and culminates on Easter. This serious consideration ...

Ash Wednesday signifies the first day of Lent ... with traditional readings that emphasized themes of penitence and redemption. Following the sermon, parishioners lined up to receive ashes, which were ...