The soft pretzel has long been an iconic snack, found everywhere from movie theaters to airports, from ballparks to restaurants. But the pretzel may actually have its roots in Lent. The earliest ...

These unique perennials are one of the very first plants to bloom in early spring, or even late winter, ushering in the new gardening season. They begin blooming well before tulips and daffodils and ...

Fasting during Lent represents one of Christianity’s most profound spiritual disciplines, with roots extending deep into biblical traditions. Though not explicitly outlined in scripture, this practice ...

One in an occasional series of guides on growing popular plants. Other guides include peony, redbud, azalea, elephant ear, coleus, lantana, coneflower, savory calamint and rudbeckia. The Lenten rose, ...

With Lent beginning today on Ash Wednesday, the Cathedral Church of the Advent, 2017 Sixth Ave. North, opens its 109th year of weekday Lenten worship services. Here are five things to know about the ...

Daily Lenten Reflections: Lent has always been a tough subject and season for me to embrace. If we are serious about it and looking for transformation (nothing casual about that!) then it is ...

With the Lenten season underway, Catholics are immersing themselves in 40 days of abstaining from sweets, technology, alcohol, and other luxuries. But did you know that Catholic monks once brewed beer ...

One of my most respected spiritual mentors once recounted to me her first experience of choosing not to “do” Lent – she was a student, away from home and the strongly enforced parental supervision of ...

I must not say no.' These words of the Earl of Kent, uttered in the closing scene of Shakespeare's King Lear, are used as a chapter epigraph in Christopher Booker's remarkable volume called The Seven ...

One of the finest religious poems of the 20th century is “Lenten Illuminations” by Siegfried Sassoon, written shortly after the poet’s reception into the Church in 1957. In the poem, the poet places ...