While not as well known as Christmas carols and Christmas music, music during the liturgical season of Lent plays a key role, a priest and musician told Fox News Digital. "Music plays a threefold role ...

Oratorios, unique chants and pilgrimages help to grow the faith of Sri Lankan Catholics during the Lenten season. Father Nirmal Malaka Silva organized Daughter of Zion, a new Sinhala oratorio that ...

The Catholic Choral Society’s Lenten concerts are an annual tradition for the group. But what makes them special is the way they capture the spirit of the season, said Music Director Ann Manganiello ...

Maria Nilanthi, 46, led a group of 23 pilgrims from Sri Lanka's west coast port city of Negombo during Lent to visit a 250-year-old shrine honoring revered St. Anne, the mother of St. Mary. They sang ...

Lenten hymns and songs may not be as well-known as Christmas classics (who doesn’t love “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”?) or even Easter songs (“Jesus Christ Is Risen Today”), but the church’s ...

Every year before Easter Sunday, Christians worldwide engage in a time of solemn contemplation known as Lent. Lent is a ...

Board members planning the event are shown from left: Michael Stretanski, Elaine Palischak, Helen Bacumpas, Anna Hudock, Robert Zavada and Anthony Palischak. The Slovak Heritage Society of ...

When members of Broad Street United Methodist Church gather for Ash Wednesday services tonight, they’ll sing Psalm 51 to mark the start of the 40-day Lenten period of reflection and repentance that ...

For the first Sunday in Lent, Pam Rhodes introduces glorious hymns that reflect the themes of the season, including trial, temptation, sacrifice and God’s enduring love. Show more For the first Sunday ...

WASHINGTON — At the beginning of this Lenten season, some Catholics in the United States were singing the hymn “Ashes” and announcing, “We rise again from ashes to create ourselves anew.” Although ...