Like the sacrifices many Christians make during the Lent season, Smela said the Ash Wednesday service is meant to prepare students for Easter which falls on April 20 this year. “This is a big ...

The Center for Faith, Action and Ministry (CFAM) provides a variety of events and retreats for students to observe Lent.

Ash Wednesday is a holy day of prayer ... St. Joseph High School, which is physically connected to the church, had its student take part in distributing ashes during the service.

Many in Orange County’s faithful community marked the start of the solemn season of Lent with Ash Wednesday services ... were several hundred students of Christ Cathedral Academy, the elementary ...

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This week included a milestone in some houses of worship, with March 5 being Ash Wednesday — the start ... at St. Mary's, had the student body of the church's school among his listeners and ...

At St. Pius V, the students were already thinking this Ash Wednesday about how they'll spend the Lenten period leading up to Easter. "I like, especially in the Lenten season to focus more on my ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Catholic Churches across the Coastal Bend held Ash Wednesday services to mark the beginning of Lent season. At St. John Paul II High School, students received ashes to ...

Students from St. Peter School on the opposite ... Adults, families and children attended other services throughout the day for Ash Wednesday, a Christian holy day of fasting and prayer.

Grace, an agnostic, attended the Ash Wednesday service at The Chapel of Saint John the Divine on March 5, to practice Lent and visit church.

Students with Holy Trinity Catholic School and Pre-School also visited on Ash Wednesday to receive the rite. The season — observed by Roman Catholics, Lutherans and several other Christian ...

OR BY CAR. PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE PARTICIPATING IN ASH WEDNESDAY, REGARDLESS OF DENOMINATION. IT KIND OF MIGHT HAVE ITS ROOTS IN CATHOLICISM, BUT IT IS CERTAINLY NOT UNIQUE TO CATHOLICISM.