By the middle of Lent, the visible signs begin to fade. The ashes are long washed away. The resolutions we made with such clarity now live quietly in the background of ordinary days.

Lent does not arrive with fanfare or confetti like other feasts in the year do.nIt arrives quietly, traced in ash, in repentance, and anchored in 40 deliberate days that feel almost stubborn in their ...

"Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here" (Luke 19:30). This Bible verse is from the Gospel of ...