(Photo: U.S. Navy/Wikimedia Commons) Marking the beginning of Lent, the White House hosted an Ash Wednesday Mass March 5 for the employees of the residence of the American president. An internal ...

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 ...

The faithful trudged up the hill to Mater Dolorosa Passionist Retreat Center on the first Ash Wednesday after the ... draws a full house at the 9 a.m. Mass every Sunday. While the parish hall ...

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A long line during Mass to receive ashes on Ash Wednesday on March 5, 2025 in the Notre-Dame de la Treille Basilica - Cathedral in Lille, France. (Photo: Brigitte Naeye) The author partly linked ...

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 ...

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KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Starting on Ash Wednesday, March 5, the period of Lent began for Christians and Catholics across West Michigan. Lent is a six-week period of prayer, fasting and abstinence ...

“Pope Francis would agree that we should focus on the presence of Jesus, rather than anyone of us,” said Jonah Berger, 24, a Dutch Catholic who attended the Ash Wednesday Mass.

“We have used the hall for Sunday Mass every week for many years ... for permission to do the liturgical service of Ash Wednesday at the site. “We got permission, and even the authorities ...

McElroy, during Ash Wednesday Mass March 5, 2025, at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington. Cardinal McElroy will be installed March 11 as the eighth archbishop of Washington.

Christians around the world and in Michigan on Wednesday began the season of Lent, the period of time leading up to Easter. Ash Wednesday marked the first day of Lent, one of five key periods on ...