"It's deeper than abstaining from ice cream," said Fr. Bill Swichtenberg of St. Mary Catholic Community in Appleton.

The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on the Thursday before Easter Sunday. This year, Ash Wednesday and the ...

Whether it's during Lent or anytime you're craving fried fish, these 11 places have the best around Shreveport ...

Because it's like, I'm only doing this because I've been asked to. I've been doing some prayer, fasting, almsgiving, during ...

Easter day, which marks the resurrection of Jesus Christ, will be celebrated on April 20, 2025. Key days leading up to Easter include Fat Tuesday on March 4, Ash Wednesday on March 5, Palm Sunday on ...

Catholicism is known for its feasts and fasts, Fat Tuesday is the day before Lent when you participate in a joyful preparation for the Lenten fast ... is also a time of Almsgiving in which ...

Floyd, former lead pastor of Cross Church in Northwest Arkansas and the 61st president of the Southern Baptist Convention, recently released his latest book, The Supernatural Power of Prayer and ...

During Lent, for example ... For Orthodox spirituality, the ascetical disciplines of prayer, fasting, almsgiving, and manual labor build on the grace of the sacraments to slowly reform the ...

But fasting shifts the emphasis away from the body and onto the soul. This is why, in Scripture, fasting is usually paired with prayer. Fasting isn’t about deprivation for its own sake or even for any ...