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It was the usual Wednesday Weight Watchers Zoom meeting, except for one thing. The leader had shown up with a black ash cross imprinted on her forehead. “Oh, yeah,” I thought. “Ash Wednesday ...

For Caitlyn, a participant in the event, Ash Wednesday holds extra significance this year. Her grandmother, a lifelong Catholic, is homebound and unable to attend church in person.

Mead Hall and St. Mary Help of Christians Catholic School students participated in Ash Wednesday Aiken gatherings to mark the start of Lent, focus on prayer.

We have a trunk or treat, and we get 80, 100, 150 kids at these outside events," she said. Walk-ins were welcome on Ash Wednesday as well as delivery orders.

Catholics receive ashes on their foreheads during Ash Wednesday services at St. Patrick Cathedral in El Paso, Texas, on March 4, 2025.

Ash Wednesday marks the start of the Lenten season for Chicago Catholics, with many carrying an ashen cross across their foreheads. It is a tradition that goes back centuries, but at St. Pius V ...

(WJAR) — It’s Ash Wednesday, marking the start of Lent. Services are being held at churches all over Southern New England. The Newman Congregational Church in East Providence offered a novel ...

Catholics receive ashes on their foreheads during Ash Wednesday services at St. Patrick Cathedral in El Paso, Texas, on March 4, 2025.

The lure of blessed ashes proves strong in Dublin’s Pro Cathedral on Wednesday morning as about 300 people file in ahead of 10.30am Mass that marks the beginning of Lent.

The practice caught on and spread, and in 1091 Pope Urban II decreed that “on Ash Wednesday everyone, clergy and laity, men and women, will receive ashes.” It’s been going on ever since. 2.