The Lord God formed the human from the topsoil of the fertile land and blew life’s breath into his nostrils. The human came to life. Jesus answered, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one ...

Thousands of Oklahomans will don a cross of ashes on their foreheads later this month during Ash Wednesday to observe the beginning of a season of fasting and prayer, or Lent. Here's everything we ...

Readings: Joel 2:12-18 2 Corinthians 5:20—6: 2 Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 Love cannot be silent. It must speak. We cannot love without going outside ourselves, which is why love must express itself. Of ...

Ash Wednesday and Valentine's Day fall on the same day this year, Wednesday, Feb. 14 – a day of indulgence meeting a day of abstaining. The last time this happened was in 2018, according to several ...

I love that Valentine’s Day falls on Ash Wednesday this year. There’s a certain yin and yang to it. The commercialism of heart-shaped love contrasted with the stark smudge of an ashen cross gives a ...

Orange residents Sergio Fraga-Zacarias and Judit Ramirez, both 24, are looking forward to spending Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday — both of which fall on Wednesday, Feb. 14 this year — in prayer ...

Lent begins this week with the observation of Ash Wednesday, one of the most important religious observations each year for Roman Catholics and other Christian groups. The day also starts a religious ...

As spring moves into sight, the Christian Easter season is getting closer, and that starts with Ash Wednesday. However, this ...