It’s Ash Wednesday, a day to mark the first day of Lent for many Christian groups including Catholics, Lutherans, and Anglicans. The holy day marks 40 days before Easter, a time of prayer and fasting.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver held Ash Wednesday services on March 5, 2025. Ash Wednesday is a holy day of prayer and fasting ...

Brother Ron McClosky applies ashes to the forehead of an attendee of an Ash Wednesday service at St. Anthony’s Church in Schenectady. The holy day marked the beginning of Lent, the period from Ash ...

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 Easter ...

Catholics around the Lehigh Valley attended services to mark Ash Wednesday, observed on the first day of Lent. See photos below. The Rev. John A. Krivak, pastor at St. Theresa of the Child Jesus Roman ...

Everything you need to know about Christians receiving ashes on Ash Wednesday.

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With a solemn mark of ashes on their foreheads, worshippers across Sonoma County gathered to observe Ash Wednesday, the start of the Lenten season. Services in churches large and small brought ...

Lent began Wednesday with the distribution of ashes at churches across Bakersfield. At St. Francis of Assisi Parish, the faithful filled pews starting at about dawn. Many took communion and received a ...

Trinity Lutheran Church in Mount Joy hosted Ash Wednesday activities geared toward children and youth Wednesday evening. Open to the public, the event featured a soup supper; a church service; then ...