Ash Wednesday is a day away and begins the Christian season of Lent 2026. The 6-week period that leads up to Easter. What we ...

Pope Leo XIV urges Catholics to listen more closely to God and others — and to 'disarm' their language by fasting from words ...

OR Mt 5:20-22a, 27-28, 33-34a, 37 In a sense, it's all been leading to this. During these weeks of Ordinary Time, the Gospel ...

Spiritual formation is the work involved in applying religious beliefs to our lives. Spiritual principles have the ability to ...

Ahead of the start of Lent, Pope Leo XIV invites Catholics to open ourselves to listening, fasting, and community, urging us ...

Our God thirsts for real presence, for contentious or questioning prayer, for genuine interaction that opens us.

St. John Paul II, Pope of the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005, once said “the Church must breathe with her ...

It's easy to take things that we're used to doing for granted. Lent's just one of those Catholic customs that come around every year as the liturgical year moves through its cycles. But if ...

The ancient practice of fasting from food during Lent can free us from complacency and lead us to “hunger” for God, Pope Leo XIV said in his 2026 Lenten message.

Lent is a 40-day season that starts on Ash Wednesday and ends at sunset on Holy Thursday the week before Easter, although ...

Lakeshore Church invites the community to Ash Wednesday and Lenten gatherings offering reflection, study and weekly meals ...

Wednesday, three days after hearing Christ’s admonitions, with his words still ringing in our ears and burning in our hearts, ...