According to Old Farmer's Almanac, Ember Days are a folklore tradition. Three days shortly after a holiday can preview the ...

Why has Church of England moved St. George's Day this year? While the feast for St. George's Day is held on the 23rd of April, the traditionally accepted date of Saint George's death, this year it ...

It accurately describes the life of Sister Patricia Bergan, of Syracuse, who will be posthumously receive the Dorothy Day Award at St. Lucy’s Church on Thursday, May 8. Bergan passed away on Dec ...

Groundhog Day is behind us. Easter is around the corner. And in the middle is a holiday associated with merry drinking and a centuries-old religious figure: St ... observing a feast day on ...

St. Patrick's Day, observed on March 17, has transitioned from a feast day in Ireland to a widely celebrated holiday in the United States. The holiday commemorates St. Patrick, the patron saint of ...

So my students are often surprised when I tell them that St. Patrick’s Day was once a solemn feast day when you’d be far more likely to see the color blue. In fact, there’s even a color ...

Vatican City, 13 December, 2024 / 1:35 pm (ACI Africa). On the feast day of St. Lucy, Dec. 13, Pope Francis said that “we need women’s work and their word in a Church that reaches out that it may be ...

The liturgical feast of St Lucy, patron saint of the blind and those ... Monday, December 16 is Thanksgiving Day. Church rector Noel Saliba will celebrate mass at 6pm, followed by Eucharistic ...

On the feast day of St. Lucy, Dec. 13, Pope Francis said that “we need women’s work and their word in a Church that reaches out that it may be leaven and light in the culture and in our lives ...

The Holy Father noted that ‘Lucy is a woman’ and that her holiness shows the Church ‘how unique are the ways in which women follow the Lord.’ Statue of St. Lucy at the New Chapel of St ...

St Lucy (aka Lucia) was a virgin martyr in fourth ... She is often depicted carrying them on a plate, while Italians mark her feast day by eating them, or at least by eating small cakes or ...