April is here, spring has arrived and the Easter holidays — such as the end of the Lent and fish-fry Fridays ... Easter is the holiest day in the Christian calendar, observing the day Jesus ...

In the Gregorian calendar, this year’s Ash Wednesday falls on Wednesday, March 5. Ash Wednesday is technically the start of Lent. Many worshippers literally mark their observation of Ash Wednesday.

Lent is one of the seasons of the liturgical calendar in the Catholic Church, and Chene Heady — associate professor of 20th-century British literature at Longwood University and longtime reader ...