While it’s not a Holy Day of Obligation to attend mass, the Catholic Church still requires Catholics to follow specific rules on Ash Wednesday. Unlike last year when St. Patrick’s Day fell on a Friday ...

It happens every year on Ash Wednesday. In our downtown parishes, women and men, old and young, office and construction workers, corporate lawyers, police officers, messengers and many others cut ...

Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent, a 40-day period of penance and prayer that ends at Easter. For observant Christians, it's a day of repentance and a time to confess sins and profess devotion to ...

Both Ash Wednesday and Valentine's Day fall on Feb. 14 this year. For observant Catholics, that means the most romantic day of the year will be put on hold for one of the major holidays on the ...

Ash Wednesday is on March 5, also known as the Day of Ashes, where you may see people with ashes in the shape of a cross smudged on their forehead or abstaining from eating meat. Ash Wednesday is a ...

Roads should start improving by Wednesday afternoon. The weather is not stopping Catholic parishes across the Des Moines metro area from hosting MardisGras events Tuesday night. And services for Ash ...

Ash Wednesday is a holy day of prayer, fasting and almsgiving that marks the start of the six weeks of penitence before Easter, known as Lent. For many Christians, its start is noted by receiving ...

FLINT, MI – One by one, a cross was etched with dark ashes across each student’s forehead. “This is why we run a Catholic school, to do stuff like this and live the liturgical life amongst the ...

Catholics around the Lehigh Valley attended church services for Ash Wednesday. Monsignor Dan Yenushosky held Mass at Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church in Whitehall Township. See photos below.

Clergy anointed the heads of congregants with ashes during the annual Ash Wednesday service at St. Mary’s Catholic Church at 119 S. Prince St. in Lancaster city on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. Ash ...