Ash Wednesday will be observed Feb. 14. Religious leaders say you can observe it and Valentine's Day without ditching your Catholic obligations.

Dorsey Prince, right, and Shannon Carter pray during an Ash Wednesday Mass at St. John Neumann Catholic Church on Wednesday Feb. 22, 2023. Ash Wednesday marks the first day of Lent, a 40-day ...

Members of the Catholic Church, ages 18 to 59, are required to observe Lent and fast on Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are known as obligatory days of abstinence. Children 14 and ...

Mass times set for Ash Wednesday at area Catholic churches. Story by Jonathan Shelley • 1mo. A sh Wednesday marks the start of Lent, a 40-day period of penance and prayer that ends at Easter.

Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025, and ends on Holy Thursday, April 17, 2025. During this time, Catholics are encouraged to deepen their faith through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.

Rev. Gregory Wilson, pastor at St. Mary’s Help of Christians Catholic church in Aiken, South Carolina, offers believers two things to consider when observing Ash Wednesday: prayer and sacrifice.

Ash Wednesday is a traditional day of repentance for Christians. While most often observed by Catholics, many Lutherans, United Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians and Anglicans also observe Ash ...

Every year in February and March, you'll see people walking around with black smudges on their foreheads. There's a simple reason for it – it's Ash Wednesday, an important season for Christians.

The ashes placed in the sign of a cross on worshipers' foreheads on Ash Wednesday are supposed to be made from last year's Palm Sunday palm branches, according to the Catholic News Agency.Last ...

Fr. Kevin Nolan blesses students from Holy Trinity Catholic School and Pre-School with a mark of the cross during Ash Wednesday Mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in San Pedro on Wednesday ...

This year, Ash Wednesday falls on March 5. The Roman Catholic day of fasting marks the first day of the season of Lent, a 40-day period of prayer and repentance leading up to Easter Sunday. Need a ...