Today, Lent is marked by a time of prayer and preparation as Christians "walk with Christ" for 40 days to His cross. The number 40 is connected with many biblical events, but especially with the ...

The Stations of the Cross is a prayer practice that invites Christians to think about the sacrifice Jesus made on the cross on Good Friday. During Lent, many churches schedule this on Fridays.

Presentations of the Stations of the Cross are scheduled multiple times at parishes across the state. Lent runs through to Thursday, April 6. Updates and additions will be made at portlanddiocese.org.

Over the last three years, I have learned that Lent is not meant to be traveled alone. In 2019, six friends and I decided to journey together through the weeks leading up to Easter.

The faithful visit the Stations of the Cross in their local parishes on Fridays during Lent and take a few moments at each station to pray or meditate. This tradition continues until Good Friday.

People are tightening their belts, recalibrating lifestyles, cutting waste, disciplining appetites and refocusing on core values. It’s called Lent. This year it’s also called shrinking ...

Lent, as a season of penance and preparation, served as the perfect time to push myself out of my spiritual and physical comfort zone––both for my own sake and for those coming to the performance.

First Posted: 3/21/2013 Every Friday during the 40 days of Lent, Catholics attend a devotion known as the “Stations of the Way of the Cross.

During this season of Lent, Christians need to remember the cross. Let us not try to sanitize it. Let us not try to secularize it. Let us not try to make it into something it is not.

The Second Sunday of Lent always features the Transfiguration. On his final journey to Jerusalem, Jesus sought to prepare his apostles for the difficult days ahead.

There’s a famous hill in Lithuania that is covered with hundreds of thousands of crosses, placed there by the faithful as symbols of their devotion to Christ. On Wednesday students at St. Peter ...