Lent

• Illinois church’s ‘fast from whiteness’ for Lent sparks vitriolic debate

  First United Church of Oak Park announced that it would not use any music or materials written or composed by white people in the 40-day period that leads up to Easter.

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  Apr 7, 2022
  
• Saskatchewan parishioners practicing Lent traditions in unique ways

  Some Lent traditions will be changing this year in response to COVID-19 safety measures in Saskatchewan.

  Canada

  Feb 17, 2021
  
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• Pope Francis to miss week-long Lenten retreat due to cold

  It is the first time in his seven-year papacy that he has missed the spiritual exercises that he initiated early in his pontificate to mark the start of each Lenten season.

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  Mar 1, 2020
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• St. Patrick’s Day at Calgary’s James Joyce Irish Pub

  For the past 21 years, Gerard Curran and his wife Anne have been hosting a St. Patrick's Day party at the Stephen Avenue bar.

  Features

  Mar 17, 2019
• Drive-thru blessings: Vancouver church meets worshippers in parking lot for Ash Wednesday

  Canadian Memorial United Church Minister Beth Hayward said that while other churches have done doorstep blessings before, she thinks hers is the first in Vancouver to do drive-thrus.

  Mar 6, 2019
• Church in Ireland offers drive-thru penance for Ash Wednesday

  St. Patrick’s Church, in Glenamaddy, Galway, offered parishioners in a rush a quick and easy way to take part in Ash Wednesday ceremonies without leaving their cars.

  Lifestyle

  Mar 1, 2017
• Mardi Gras revelry ends, Lenten season begins

  The merriment of Mardi Gras has ended and the solemn season of Lent begins.

  Lifestyle

  Mar 5, 2014
• Brazil keeps up Carnival pace of parties, parades

  Extraterrestrial toucan birds, neon green spacemen waving Brazilian flags and legions of scantily clad women and men dancing a furious samba opened the final round of Rio de Janeiro's extravagant Carnival parades

  Lifestyle

  Mar 4, 2014
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• Pope’s pre-Easter schedule includes Holy Thursday foot-wash

  Pope Francis will leave the Vatican for a weeklong retreat leading up to his busy Easter season.

  World

  Feb 27, 2014