If you live on the Treasure Coast and see ash falling from the sky, it's more than likely due to the prescribed burn on Lake ...

Photojournalist Stuart Palley turned his camera on the California wildfires and shares his account of devastation and ...

Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., archbishop of Newark, marked the beginning of Lent by distributing ashes to hundreds of Catholics during two Ash Wednesday Masses March 5 at St.

A group of Filipino Catholic priests burned palm fronds symbolising the “seven sins” of former president Rodrigo Duterte’s ...

In places where real palm fronds aren’t available ... traditions agree that you only need abstain from eating meat on Ash Wednesday and Fridays during Lent. So for Palm Sunday feasts, like ...

Ash Wednesday a significant day in the liturgical calendar that marks the start of the season of Lent and fasting.

A devotee with an ash cross on her forehead prays during Ash Wednesday rites March 5, 2025 at the Redemptorist Church in Manila, Philippines as Catholics in this predominantly Roman Catholic nation ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A devotee with an ash cross on her forehead prays during Ash Wednesday rites March 5, 2025 at the ...

The chancellor of the Archdiocese of Cebu, Monsignor Renato Beltran, led a ritual of the burning and blessing of old palm fronds for Ash Wednesday. Beltran prayed that the burning of old palm fronds ...

who celebrated Ash Wednesday Mass at St. Patrick Cathedral in El Paso, Texas, on March 5, 2025. Many churches get their ashes for the services by burning palm fronds returned to their parishes ...

Many churches get their ashes for the services by burning palm fronds returned to their parishes ... celebration before receiving their ashes. "Ash Wednesday means communing closely with my ...

WELLINGTON, Fla. — St. Michael Lutheran Church in Wellington is doing their drive-thru Ash Wednesday blessings. The church has been doing this for several years. They told me that had more than ...