SUNDAY, Feb. 23, 10 p.m.

Christ Contemplated

EWTN Father Marcus Holden of the Diocese of Southwark, England, and art historian Teresa Lane visit the National Gallery in London to study 12 paintings of Our Lord.

SUNDAYS, 6 p.m.

Home Town

HGTV In this series, four 60-minute episodes on Sunday evenings feature Ben and Erin Napier as they redo homes in their hometown of Laurel, Mississippi, and raise their daughters.

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 26, 10 a.m.

The Harlem Hellfighters

HISTORY Soldiers of the 369th Infantry Regiment, a Black unit of the New York National Guard, fought with valor in France in World War I. TV-14.

FRIDAY, Feb. 28, 1:30 a.m.

Quo Vadis

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES Based on Henryk Sienkiewicz’s 1896 same-named novel, this 1951 epic tells of the love of a Roman general and a Christian woman during Emperor Nero’s persecution. Deborah Kerr, Robert Taylor, Peter Ustinov and Buddy Baer star. Quo vadis is Latin for “Where are you going?” — a question Jesus asks each of us. TV-PG.

FRIDAY, Feb. 28, 8 p.m.

Life Is Beautiful

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES Pope St. John Paul II had a private screening of this 1997 film about a heroic Italian Jewish dad in a Nazi concentration camp who shields his son, 5, by telling him they are merely in an elaborate game the boy can win by lying low. Roberto Benigni directed and starred. Giorgio Cantarini and Nicoletta Braschi co-star. TV-14 for Holocaust setting and intense scenes.

SATURDAY, March 1, 8 p.m.

Free

EWTN Dr. Silvester Krcméry (1924-2013) and his friend Vladimir Jukl (1925-2012), leaders of the underground Catholic Church in communist-ruled, postwar Czechoslovakia, endured years of imprisonment and torture by the atheist regime but remained faithful and won out.

WEDNESDAY, March 5

Ash Wednesday

EWTN At 8 a.m. is Ash Wednesday Mass, from EWTN in Irondale, Alabama. (Re-airs 6:30 p.m., midnight.) At 10:30 a.m., Pope Francis is scheduled to preside over the penitential procession from the Church of Sant’Anselmo to the Basilica of St. Sabina for Holy Mass With the Blessing and Imposition of Ashes. At 4 p.m., Lent at Ephesus profiles the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles of northwest Missouri. (Re-airs 11:30 p.m.)

Upcoming

SUNDAY, March 9, 1:30 p.m.

In Concert: The Dream of Gerontius

EWTN A performance of English composer Edward Elgar’s 1900 The Dream of Gerontius, an oratorio based on St. John Henry Newman’s 1865 poem about a soul’s pathway to God through final illness, death, judgment and purgatory, is featured from Rome’s Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in 2023.