On Ash Wednesday, observant Catholics receive a sign of the cross in ashes on their foreheads, a gesture that underscores human mortality. It is an obligatory day of fasting and abstinence for ...
The call of Lent, Pope Francis wrote, is a call to turn to the Lord and so become "a sign of hope for the world." ...
The Vatican says that Pope Francis has increased his physical activity, called the Catholic parish priest in Gaza and ...
Midway Airport Chapel is located in Concourse C at Mezzanine Level (Inside Security). Mass will be held at 10 a.m., noon and 2 p.m. and Liturgical services will be at 11 a.m.,1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Each ...
It’s been going on ever since. This phrase was the only one used on Ash Wednesday until the liturgical reforms following the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. At that time a second phrase ...