Won’t You Be My Neighbor Day – March 20, 2025 Won’t You Be My Neighbor Day is celebrated every year on March 20. The day honors, celebrates, and appreciates the late Fred Rogers, the immensely popular host of the preschool TV series “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” which ran from 1968 to 2001. Although it has not aired for the past 21 years, […]
Daily Archives: February 10, 2025
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What is the Meaning and Importance of Ash Wednesday? You may have seen Christians, mostly Catholics, walking around with a smear of ash on their foreheads and wondered what it meant. The practice of Ash Wednesday is symbolic within the Christian church to recognize our frailty as humans. It also marks the beginning of the Lent season. This year Ash Wednesday […]
Lent starts with Ash Wednesday, the day when you might see people with a cross of ashes on their foreheads. These ashes are a reminder of our need for repentance and the reality of our human frailty. The ash marks symbolize sorrow and mourning over sin. The Biblical support for this observation comes from the following verses: Then I turned […]
What Is the Spring Equinox? In the Northern Hemisphere, the spring equinox (also called the March equinox or vernal equinox across the globe) occurs when the Sun crossesthe celestial equator going south to north. It’s called the “celestial” equator because it’s an imaginary line in the sky above Earth’s equator. Imagine standing on the equator; the Sun would pass directly overhead on its way north. On the March equinox, […]