Visit the homepage for more information. Scroll through this page of poetry on the theme of Lent, or click on a title below to jump to that particular poem. My Son, could I have climbed this hill for ...

(I’ve changed both his name and some details about his crimes.) I first heard of Luke because he wrote a Lenten devotional popular among nonincarcerated Episcopalians. Helping him with his ordination ...

It is celebrated on the Sunday of Orthodoxy (the first Sunday of Lent). The Akathist Hymn is a profound, devotional poem, which sings the praises of the Holy Mother and Ever-Virgin Mary. It is one of ...

This devotion has been long encouraged by the church, and is especially useful during Lent and Good Friday. The devotion, highly recommended by the Church, was developed during the Crusades when ...

Lent is the 40-day period preceding Easter that focuses on ... an effort to get him to doubt that he was really the son of God or to renounce his devotion in exchange for wealth and glory. But instead ...

The church's special Lent publication includes several devotions from its first edition and a devotion by Rev. Jim Noland, who was pastor when the booklet launched in 2000. Song hopes the ...

They are not optional devotional extras, but an integral part of Orthodox faith ... Before the Triumph of Orthodoxy came to be celebrated on the first Sunday of Lent, there was on this day a ...

Ashes made from palms and the colour purple are both highly symbolic during Lent You might have heard people discuss giving something up that they enjoy for Lent, like chocolate or social media ...

The obligation of observing this Lent, which, though introduced so imperceptibly ... it is probable that it was only his own devotion which prompted him to this practice. The discipline of ...

For years, many had predicted a reckoning, a shared realization that the noisy, grievance-packed redoubt that the GOP had become—marked by servile devotion ... which lent a charmed-life quality ...

Although his father was a devotional singer ... His versatile voice lent itself to romantic and classical songs. He was also a flamboyant yodeller and sang bouncy dance tracks.