An increase in popularity of drive-thru Ash Wednesday blessings encouraged Pastor Debbie Beissel to conduct Elysburg United Methodist Church’s first this year. She was greeted Wednesday by congregants ...

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent ... Participants do not need to belong to the church to attend. Clergy will offer prayers and ashes to vehicle occupants and provide a free cross keepsake ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO) — Many of the faithful across KELOLAND attended Ash Wednesday services to mark the beginning of the 40 days of Lent. The ailing Pope Francis is in the prayers of both ...

This comes at a time as the Pope will not be doing Ash Wednesday services. "We join with those all around the world in offering. Prayers to our Pope Francis, during his illness. We pray through ...

However, this year's Ash Wednesday has a unique significance. The global Catholic community is especially focused on prayers for the pope, who has spent nearly three weeks in the hospital battling ...

Pope Francis marked Ash Wednesday on his 20th day in Rome's Gemelli hospital by taking part in the rite of the blessing of ...

A: Contrary to popular thinking, Ash Wednesday is not a holy day of obligation. You do not have to go to Mass that day or ...

A church in Los Angeles is asking for prayers after it was vandalized on Ash Wednesday, a holy day in Catholicism. The vandalism occurred at Our Mother of Good Counsel church in the Los Feliz ...

he curbed his participation in Ash Wednesday and Holy Week events, which call for the pope to be outdoors in the cold leading services, participating in processions and presiding over prayers in the ...

Ash Wednesday arrives this week, starting the 40-day period of Christian repentance known as Lent. The weeks leading up to Easter are meant to be a time of self-reflection, prayer and fasting.