The blessing of the candles during Candlemas, or Candelora, as we say in Italian (Image created with DALL-E 2) While firmly grounded in Christian tradition, the Candelora also bears connections to ...

Saturday was quite the day for the CSRA’s biggest college basketball rivalry between Augusta University and USC-Aiken. Barred business and the national action network held a state of emergency town ...

If you saw some people that looked like they were out of a bygone era you may have been near the Imbolc Irish Festival.

Many, on meeting the bird, raise their cap to it or even salute it to avoid bad luck. Seeing a lone magpie before going out ...

Here’s an astounding fact — Brigid’s Day is the only national holiday honoring a woman in the world (except for feasts of the ...

In my faith tradition, radical love means welcoming the stranger. It means questioning my very natural human instinct to see ...

On Feb. 1, locals celebrated the halfway point between the winter solstice and spring equinox, Imbolc, with a fundraiser for ...

As the ritual closed and the evening wound to an end, attendees enjoyed a community potluck and friendly conversation. With the scent of incense still hanging heavy in the air, ritual participants ...

I just finished listening online to a sermon my Episcopalian friend Whitney Kimball Coe gave on Sunday. She begins her ...

Historians today tell us that the ancient Celts arrived at the shores of Britain around 1,000 BC and lived there during the Iron Age, the Roman Age and the post Roman era. Living on an island with ...

Patrick O'Donovan, Minister for Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport, is encouraging members of the public to ...

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. — Groundhog Day predictions about the coming of spring put the spotlight on Punxsutawney Phil every Feb. 2, ...