First United Methodist in Gulfport is one church beginning the 40-day Lenten season with an Ash Wednesday service. The ashes are imposed on foreheads at the end of the worship service.

Lent has begun for many in typical ways, with fish fries as well as Ash Wednesday worship services or occasions where one could stop and get ashes given out drive-by style. In churches such as one ...

In the Catholic Church, ashes are applied to the forehead of each worship attendee at Ash Wednesday mass services. The receiving of ashes is not a sacrament of the Catholic Church and is therefore ...

Hope Lutheran Church St. Catherine of Alexandria Catholic Church St. Thomas Episcopal Church Temecula United Methodist Church ...

In preparation for Easter, many Christians and Catholics have been observing Lent, which began on Ash Wednesday, March 5, and will ...

The Diocese of Tyler Bishop Gregory Kelly led his first mass at the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception in downtown Tyler on Ash Wednesday. Multiple parishioners attended the noon mass at the ...

A procession of the faithful greeted clergy and lay ministers on Ash Wednesday in Upland. The annual mobile service Wednesday morning, March 5, at St. Mark Episcopal Parish marked the beginning of ...

The Rev. Marion Phipps provides the Ash Wednesday services and offers each recipient a prayer. It was something she went into with some skepticism when the idea initially came up five years ago, ...

Prayer (deepening their relationship with God), Fasting (giving up certain foods or habits), and Almsgiving (acts of charity and service). Ash Wednesday is not a public holiday, but it is widely ...