The note that the psalmist sounds at the beginning of Lent is not sin, but forgiveness.

‘Lent may once again don its public mask’: America's editors from 1978 on an American Lent.

Mardi Gras must end; and yet its joys are right and good, in their time, in their place.

Purim and Mardi Gras serve, paradoxically, as a farcical introduction to a period of deep religious seriousness.

Lent is a popular time to make resolutions. And that’s all to the good.

In fasting, in abstinence, in visits to church, we are showing our love to God.