The faithful trudged up the hill to Mater Dolorosa Passionist Retreat Center on the first Ash Wednesday after the Eaton Fire, ...

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent and its observance lasts for 40 days. Here's what to know about the Christian ...

Many worshipers will receive the marking of the cross in ash on their foreheads on Wednesday, meant to show that a person ...

The Christian world today begins a 40-day period of praying, fasting, arms-giving and self-denial with Ash Wednesday. This ...

On Ash Wednesday, we, humans, remember that we are dust and to dust we will return ... social media or watching sports on TV or some other beloved activity. This type of fasting is a spiritual ...

As it has done for the last several years, St. Hugh of Lincoln Episcopal Church in Elgin has offered Christians a unique way ...

"And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a ...

and to dust you shall return.” The ashes signify repentance for one's sins and a renewed commitment to God. For many Christians, Ash Wednesday is a day of fasting, as well as abstaining from ...

Ash Wednesday is a yearly reminder about one’s beginnings/one’s end, one’s short life/ mortality and one’s eternal life/immortality, and one’s present/temporal as well as one’s future/eternal dwelling ...