This year, Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent fall in March, almost a full month later. Here’s when Ash Wednesday, ...
Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent, falls on Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Lent is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter Sunday, which ends on the Thursday before Easter.
The faithful trudged up the hill to Mater Dolorosa Passionist Retreat Center on the first Ash Wednesday after the Eaton Fire, ...
New York’s Catholics observe the start of Lent throughout the city on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Today marks the beginning ...
The holy day is the first day of Lent, which is when Christians spend 40 days before Easter reflecting on their religion.
Pews were packed at an Ash Wednesday mass led by Miami’s Archbishop Thomas Wenski at Broward’s oldest Catholic Church earlier ...
Cardinal Wilton Gregory (at right), the retiring archbishop of Washington, dispenses ashes to Cardinal Robert McElroy, the ...
Ash Wednesday marks the start of 40 days of Lent, but what's this Catholic tradition all about and is it still observed in ...