2025 For 40 days every Lenten season, purple linens adorn the altar, and priests don violet chasubles for Mass and Stations of the Cross services. Behind the practices, traditions and liturgies of ...

We sell our faith short, and so we sell our Lent short. At least I do. I have spent most of my life thinking of the faith as ...

The cross shape is itself significant ... king of the Jews!”. For Lent then, purple is symbolic of Jesus’ pain and suffering as well as a reminder that believers should seek repentance.

Purple Bead Stations of the Cross Chaplet Follow along with the Stations ... Remember Your Death (Memento Mori) Lenten Devotional In remembering our death during Lent, we ought to be inspired ...

As part of the commemoration, ashes are placed on their foreheads in the form of a cross hence the name ... or goods to those in need. During Lent, purple color is used in the church, to ...