The lure of blessed ashes proves strong in Dublin’s Pro Cathedral on Wednesday morning as about 300 people file in ahead of ...

Ash Wednesday marks the start of the Lenten season for Catholics and other Christian denominations including Anglicans, ...

The church will be providing ashes on Wednesday, March 5th, during two time slots, from 6:30 – 9:00 a.m. and from 4:30 – 6:30 ...

Lent, the season of penitence, is the preparation of the soul to accompany the Lord in the Passion. It begins now, and ...

For many Christians worldwide, the weeks leading up to Easter are a time of fasting, solemn contemplation and abstaining from ...

It’s Ash Wednesday, a day to mark the first day of Lent for many Christian groups including Catholics, Lutherans, and ...

Christians hear the words "Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return." Those words ring differently for many ...

Church pews at Christian churches throughout Western New York might be filled on Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday is one of the ...

To begin the next 40 days of worship, Christians spent the morning at St. Pius the X for mass for Ash Wednesday ...

In his catechesis, the Holy Father also reflected on how Jesus’ parents, Mary and Joseph, had to mature in their own ...

The Catholic Church opened the solemn Lenten season leading to Easter on Wednesday without the participation of Pope Francis, who was in the third week of ...

ROME (TNND) — Vatican officials said Pope Francis is resting on this Ash Wednesday, the start of the solemn Lenten period.