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The Great Lent and Easter
The Great Lent is one of the four fasting seasons of the Orthodox Church. The Great Lent is considered abstaining from something one cherishes to eat, like the traditional Ketfo (a bowl of finely ...
What next? When we celebrate Easter, some believers tend to relax to old ways. Lent is not just about 40 days. Thank you for reading Nation.Africa Show plans What if we skipped a whole year without ...
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As the Lenten season comes to a close, local fish fries will have their last day of sales this weekend.At the beginning of Lent, we spoke to Ace's in Cambria Ci ...
What do bunnies, baskets, colored eggs, egg hunts and candies all have in common? Each of these traditional components of ...
Good Friday is celebrated on the Friday before Easter and marks the day Jesus was crucified and died. This year, it is observed on April 18, 2025.
The origins of the hot cross bun traditionally made with currants, spices, flour, and eggs are closely linked to a cathedral ...
A connection with food and our faith is not new and in fact is reinforced by our Lenten and Easter traditions, David Murray ...
As Lent wraps up, Holy Week continues through Easter Sunday. See the meaning of Good Friday and why people fast after Maundy ...
Lent began on Ash Wednesday and ends on either Holy Thursday or Holy Saturday, “depending on the denomination or tradition ...
The tradition dates as far back as 601 AD, when 64th leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Gregory cemented the Lent as ...
That’s what the Catholic school kids called the students who invaded their classrooms on Monday nights for PSR. (An acronym ...