Missed the mark this Lent? It’s not too late. God’s grace is waiting — and the Easter Triduum is the perfect time to begin ...

Lent gets its name from a word meaning "springtime," the time of year when the hours of daylight are lengthening and the sun ...

These Scriptures suggest that God does not mark ... This story appears in the Lent 2025 feature series. View the full series. A version of this story appeared in the March 28-April 10, 2025 ...

Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill completes his four-week overview of the Bible's 66 books, with the prophets ...

In the silence of the desert, Matta El Maskine (1919–2006) found God—and transformed modern Coptic monasticism. His life of ...

Fr. Ciszek’s astounding journey – his torment, distress and humiliation, not to mention how hard labor battered his body but never his spirit – is undeniably a wellspring of Easter joy. His witness ...

When it comes to pulling Catholics into pews, Christmas rites top the list – followed by a tie between Easter, the Christian calendar’s most joyous day, and Ash Wednesday, which is the most ...

Several Christian denominations celebrate Lent, with each having its own practices. Lent is the 40 days between Ash Wednesday ...

Four topics emerge from this Sunday's readings: celebration, reconciliation, God and compassion. The first, celebration, emerges from the reading taken from the book of Joshua that features the ...

Easter is less than a week away, but Good Friday is even sooner. Though most Americans know about the ins and outs of Easter, ...

Section by section, we’ve moved this Lent and into Easter week through the Bible. I’ve pointed out the parallels, the echoes between the Hebrew scriptures and the Greek testament, often called ...