At Olde Tyme Grocery in Lafayette, their celebrated fried crawfish po’boys are sold exclusively on Fridays during Lent.

Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, will be celebrated on Wednesday, March 5 this year. More: What will spring be like in ...

"It's deeper than abstaining from ice cream," said Fr. Bill Swichtenberg of St. Mary Catholic Community in Appleton.

The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on the Thursday before Easter Sunday. This year, Ash Wednesday and the ...

Easter Sunday may still be more than two months away, but the Easter season kicks off in less than a month with the arrival ...

The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on ...

Fat Tuesday and the Mardi Gras celebrations will kick off a late start to the 2025 Lenten season — from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday. Unlike many other holidays, the date of Easter changes every ...

Easter falls on the first Sunday after the full moon that occurs on or after the spring equinox. This year, Easter is Sunday, ...

The observance marks the start of lent, the season leading up to Easter; it's is one of five key periods on the Catholic liturgical calendar, along with Advent, Christmas, Easter, and Ordinary ...

Ash Wednesday will fall on March 5 this year, and begin Lent. Lent will run from March 5 to April 17 in 2025, ending the day before Good Friday. Easter will be celebrated on April 20 this year. In ...

New Orleans' Mardi Gras festival has been in full swing since Jan. 6 with revelers whooping it up ahead of the Lenten season, which is just weeks away. The Louisiana city's final celebration takes ...