On Sunday, March 9, Wesley United Methodist Church, 14 N. May St. in Aurora, will open the Lenten sermon series “A Praying Church: Becoming a People of Prayer.” Lead Pastor Tammy Scott will preach on ...

Over the past few years these homilies for a Sunday in Lent, usually the March issue of Celebration and coming from one starting point or another, have tried to explore how Lent itself is a way that ...

Laetare (“Rejoice”) Sunday was a gracious pause to our Lenten penance. After enjoying its light-heartedness, the Church now doubles down. With the flowers, music and rose vestments of Laetare Sunday ...

OAK PARK, Ill. (Gray News) - A church in Illinois is ‘Fasting from Whiteness’ during the season of Lent. Lead Pastor John Edgerton at the First United Church of Oak Park wrote in a March newsletter ...

Praying at the tombs and places of martyrdom of the saints and martyrs of the early Church throughout Rome truly ‘brings us into a real, living, breathing relationship with the Church through her ...