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

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Christians are marking the first day of the Easter calendar on Ash Wednesday.

Ash Wednesday is considered a holy day of prayer and fasting as Lent begins. The season of Lent lasts 40 days, leading up to the celebration of Easter on Sunday, April 20.

Ash Wednesday gets its name from the practice of placing ashes on the foreheads of the faithful as a sign of penance.

Christians are observing Ash Wednesday, ushering in the 40-day season of Lent, when the faithful prepare for Easter by doing ...

"Lent is, for me, it’s a time where I'm still enough to listen," a St. Aloysius Catholic Church parishioner said.