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

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

Mortals are both human (from dust) and soul/divine (with God’s breath of life). Ash Wednesday is a yearly ... God the Father’s beloved Son offered for our salvation and redemption, for our ...

In both wildfires, houses of worship fell to ash. But much of the conversation Wednesday focused as much on renewal as on ruin. “The recent fire has left visible scars on our beloved grounds ...

As Shakespeare affirms in his multifarious works and manifold ways, we do indeed “owe” our lives. And this stark reality has ...

YODER: None of us is beyond redemption, unless we want to be. We are changed. Transformed from a single unity existing merely ...

Ashes are blessed in the Church on Ash Wednesday. They are used to keep us ... when our bodies will return to dust, and of the necessity of doing penance for our sins. These ashes are obtained ...