Ash Wednesday marks the start of the season of Lent in the church. Join us for a penitential service, where we receive a mark of ashes as a reminder that we are created from dust, and to dust we will ...

“Oh, yeah,” I thought. “Ash Wednesday.” I hadn’t forgotten. I had celebrated Mardi Gras the day before by reposting memes from New Orleans. It was a dear friend’s birthday. But, I wasn’t focused on ...

Pews were packed at an Ash Wednesday mass led by Miami’s Archbishop Thomas Wenski at Broward’s oldest Catholic Church earlier this afternoon. The mass, held at St. Anthony Catholic Church in ...

The Diocese of Tyler Bishop Gregory Kelly led his first mass at the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception in downtown Tyler, Texas on Ash Wednesday. Multiple parishioners attended the noon mass at ...

of Merced has ash placed on her forehead in the shape of a cross during Ash Wednesday Mass at Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church in Merced. Andrew Kuhn [email protected] Catholics began the ...

Editor’s Note: The article first published in 2020 by The Conversation. For Christians, the death and resurrection of Jesus is a pivotal event commemorated each year during a season of ...