BATON ROUGE, La. ( Louisiana First) — Ash Wednesday falls on Feb. 18, marking the beginning of the Lenten season. Multiple churches in the Baton Rouge area will be hosting Ash Wednesday services.

“Ash Wednesday is a way of looking ahead to Easter,” Father Morrill said. “And here in the Northern Hemisphere, that also means looking ahead to spring.” Ashes are made from the palms blessed on Palm ...

Ash Wednesday falls on Feb. 18, 2026. Here's what it means and where to get ashes in Austin, including early morning and ...

Drive-through ashes, cathedral mass among options for day of fasting and reflection ...

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) — It’s Ash Wednesday, marking the end of Fat Tuesday celebrations and the beginning of Lent season for many Christians. As is tradition on Ash Wednesday, Christians will ...

It's Ash Wednesday, marking the start of the Easter season for Christians. So what does Ash Wednesday mean? Here's what to know.

For those who are working or otherwise unable to receive ashes at Mass on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18, Fr. Egren Gomez, pastor of Holy Cross Catholic Church, ...

If you passed by Gesù Catholic Church around lunchtime on Wednesday, you would've seen people pouring out onto the steps after the Ash Wednesday service. The mass, one of many held at the downtown ...

Hours after they put away the masks and scarfed down the last remnants of king cake, the devout across south Louisiana went to church Wednesday to receive the ashes on their foreheads that mark the ...