Ash Wednesday has arrived, and Lent 2025 has officially begun. For millions of Christians around the world, this marks the beginning of a spring tradition in honor of Jesus Christ's resurrection on ...

As the liturgical season of Lent enters its first full week, it is a time to adjust one's routine to be in a better place spiritually during the 40 days of the Lenten season, according to Pastor Jesse ...

The 40 days of this year's Lenten season started this past week, on Ash Wednesday, as faithful Christians all over the world began the spiritual commemoration of the 40 days that Jesus spent in the ...

"When I see your heavens, the work of your hands, the moon and stars that you put in place — what are we that you are mindful of us?" Someone wrote Psalm 8 about 2,500 years ago. Long before that, ...

The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert. That's no two-cent word! The word Mark chose to explain how the Spirit prompted Jesus into the desert is the same word the Gospels use to refer to driving ...

Sunday, Feb. 18, is the First Sunday of Lent. Mass readings: Genesis 9:8-15; Psalm 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9.; 1 Peter 3:18-22; Mark 1:12-15. On the First Sunday of Lent, the readings turn to a very baptismal ...

During Lent we are called to journey with Jesus as he remains in the desert for forty days. I am struck by the image of Jesus in today’s Gospel—wandering the desolate landscape, surrounded by wild ...

On the first Sunday of Lent, Pope Francis focused his Angelus address on the temptation of Jesus in the desert to highlight that it is an invitation for us to enter the proverbial desert to come “in ...

The readings for the First Sunday of Lent provide an opportunity to discern two voices: the voice of the tempter and the voice of the Spirit. In the first reading, the serpent is described as “the ...

Just as the First Sunday of Lent’s Gospel is always Jesus’ Temptation in the Desert, so the Second Sunday’s is always his Transfiguration. The Church officially celebrates the Solemnity of the ...

Lent is a 40-day period of fasting, prayer, and reflection observed by many Christians in preparation for Easter. This represents the 40 days that Jesus spent fasting and praying in the desert before ...