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

Beginning March 4, many Americans will find themselves busy with Easter season and its holidays. Here are the key dates to ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

We're almost through the first eight weeks of the new year, and now our sights are turning to the spring months with Pancake Tuesday just around the corner, followed by Lent.