This year it falls on March 5. Some St. Louis area churches are offering drive-thru ash services throughout the day on Wednesday. Clergy members will be on hand to offer a short prayer and ashes at ...

Today thousands of Christians in Alabama and millions worldwide will observe Ash Wednesday ... Clergy applying the ashes traditionally quote Genesis: “You are dust and to dust you shall return ...

Many worshipers will receive the marking of the cross in ash on their foreheads on Wednesday, meant to show that a person belongs to Jesus Christ.

Lent is a 40-day season of prayer, fasting and giving ... of marking the foreheads of worshipers with ashes in the shape of the cross on Ash Wednesday. Lent is 40 days to represent the 40 ...

Ash Wednesday was last week. For Christians it begins 40 days of self-examination and repentance by prayer, fasting and self-denial. It is also a time to read and mediate on God’s word. Pictured is St ...

Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, Christianity's 40-day season of prayer and fasting leading up to Jesus ...

A church in Los Angeles is asking for prayers after it was vandalized on Ash Wednesday, a holy day in Catholicism. The ...

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of ... Those interested in participating can attend a church or prayer service where they'll receive the ashes on their forehead in the sign of a cross, usually ...

Ash Wednesday is a day away and begins the Christian season of Lent. The 6-week period that leads up to Easter. What we know on date, meaning and more.

Ash Wednesday – officially known as the Day of Ashes — is a day of repentance ... Lent is six weeks of fasting or self-sacrifice, prayer and almsgiving observed by Christians each year ...