Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When is Ash Wednesday in 2026? What to know about the start of Lent The Christian observance of Ash Wednesday Feb. 18 this year ...

St. John Paul II, Pope of the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005, once said “the Church must breathe with her two lungs.” Those two lungs, the Eastern Catholic Church and the Roman ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lent will end on Holy Thursday, which will be on April 2, 2026 at sunset. Good Friday is the following day, April 3. Like Ash ...

This is the week of Ash Wednesday, a solemn day of fasting and reflection that signals the start of Lent, the most penitential season of the church calendar for Catholics and many other Christians. On ...

LIVERPOOL, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Ash Wednesday marked the start of Lent this week, and Friday is the first day many Catholics temporarily take beef, chicken, pork and other meats off their plates and ...

The Christian observance of Ash Wednesday Feb. 18 this year and will mark the season of Lent, leading up to Easter. Lent is one of five key periods on the Catholic liturgical calendar, along with ...