“You can’t take it with you,” I think St. Francis once said. O.K., what he actually (maybe) said was: “Remember, when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received, only ...

COMMENTARY: Conversion means resisting the temptation to ‘sing more loudly’ when confronted head-on with the troubling reality of evil in the world. A young girl prays at St. Andrew's Ukrainian ...

Prayer, fasting and almsgiving are the three pillars of Lent. Prayer and fasting are always mentioned first, while almsgiving remains in the wings. But it is more important than you realize. “When you ...

Is there any question that almsgiving is the under-practiced, under-encouraged Lenten discipline when compared with prayer and fasting? (In this magazine’s 110-year-old archives, a search for the ...

“[C]harity requires, first of all, an attitude of inner joy.” “Offering mercy cannot be a burden or a nuisance to get rid of quickly.” “[P]raise God through sacrifice and praise God with alms.” ...

Giving alms to the poor seems to be a key tenet of many faiths. Here’s glimpse at a few: “Almsgiving is prayer, and it involves fasting. Almsgiving is a form of prayer because it is ‘giving to God,’ ...

Ash Wednesday always seems to show up unexpectedly. It’s on the calendar. We know when it is, but it still seems to come with an element of surprise. Perhaps it’s because of the various commitments ...

The season of Lent officially kicked off last Wednesday, and while most of us are familiar with the common lent traditions, including no meat on Fridays, and maybe giving something up for the period.

A mother who has been part of a Catholic Relief Services’ program for family nutrition prepares beans for the family’s seven children at their home in Konjiko, Kenya, May 1, 2019. Lenten alms donated ...

The amount of public almsgiving has increased by 27 percent compared to a year before, Habibollah Asoudeh, deputy for development of people's participation of the Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation, said ...