Ash Wednesday is the first day of the season of Lent that leads up to Good Friday and Easter. What to know about the day.

Ash Wednesday, in most Christian denominations, is the beginning of the Lenten season leading up to Easter Sunday. It takes ...

The Lenten season is upon Catholics. To mark the beginning of the Lenten season, or the 40-day period prior to Easter, Catholic Cemeteries of Long Island held a Stations of the Cross prayer service in ...

INCREASED HIS PHYSICAL ACTIVITY. THAT WHILE CHRISTIANS AROUND THE WORLD ARE RECOGNIZING ASH WEDNESDAY, MARKING THE BEGINNING OF LENT. MILWAUKEE CATHOLICS RECOGNIZE THE DAY WITH A MASS. THE FIRST ASH ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis increased his physical therapy with his condition remaining stable on Wednesday, marking the start of Lent by receiving ashes on his forehead and calling the parish priest in ...

VATICAN CITY — The Catholic Church opened the solemn Lenten season on Wednesday without the participation of Pope Francis, who was in the third week of hospital treatment for double pneumonia. A ...

The Easter season may seem far off but for many it begins in just over a month. Easter falls in the first week of April this year, meaning Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the Lenten season will ...

Lent is a 40-day season observed by many Christians that begins with Ash Wednesday and leads into the final weeks of the church calendar before Easter. The dates shift each year, but the season’s ...

Christians will celebrate Ash Wednesday is tomorrow, also marking the beginning of the 40-day Lenten season. Christians have observed Lent all across the globe for more than 1,000 years. The first ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Catholic Lenten Season starts on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18 this year, which means the first fish-fry ...

On Friday, March 14, 2025, St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church in East Drumore Township hosted its first fish fry of this year’s Lenten season. The church, at 955 Robert Fulton Highway (Route 222), ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis increased his physical therapy with his condition remaining stable on Wednesday, marking the start of Lent by receiving ashes on his forehead and calling the parish priest in ...