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 ...

New York's Catholics observe the start of Lent throughout the city on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Today marks the beginning of Christianity's 40 days of prayer, fasting and giving ahead of ...

Antonia E. Noonan prays during Ash Wednesday at St. Anthony Church in Fort Lauderdale. Jose Iglesias [email protected] Pews were packed at an Ash Wednesday mass led by Miami’s Archbishop ...

Correction: A previous version of this story showed an incorrect time for an Ash Wednesday service at Gethsemane Lutheran Church. Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the 40-day Lenten season in the ...

As it has done for the last several years, St. Hugh of Lincoln Episcopal Church in Elgin offered Christians a unique way to start the Lenten season by dispensing ashes via a drive-thru lane rather ...

"Today we are making tuna hoagies and haluski," said Pastor Wendy D'agostino, Brick United Methodist Church. The Ash Wednesday food fundraiser at the Brick United Methodist Church in Duryea would ...

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 ...

Many more will head to church on their lunch break or after work to receive a cross of ashes on their face. This year, Ash Wednesday — a solemn day of fasting and reflection to mark the start of ...

The cars came early at Faith Lutheran Church in White Oak. This is the the 10th year of 'Ash and Dash' at the church, where people can get ashes in their vehicle before heading off to work or school.

Ash Wednesday is Wednesday ... The 64th leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Gregory, set the first official period of Lent in 601 AD, according to the Museum of the Bible. At this time, Lent ...

Church of Notre-Dame du Raincy (Seine-Saint-Denis), on Ash Wednesday March 5, 2025. (Photo: Famille Chrétienne) The French magazine cited the example of the cathedral of Fréjus (southern France ...

This year, Ash Wednesday is March 5, with Lent running through April 17. This is the second time Br. Bill has administered the ashes. Last year, the church didn’t have a supply priest.