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 in many Western Christian denominations.

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 ...

With a solemn mark of ashes on their foreheads, worshippers across Sonoma County gathered to observe Ash Wednesday, the start of the Lenten season. With a solemn mark of ashes on their foreheads ...

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 ...

Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Share Ash Wednesday signals the start of Lent ... Easter in many Western Christian traditions. The following images capture Chicagoans participating in the meaningful ...

GREENWICH — Christ Church Greenwich had multiple ways for people to get their ashes on Ash Wednesday. The church hosted three Eucharist services with ashes and provided "Ashes to Go" in its ...

Adults, families and children attended other services throughout the day for Ash Wednesday, a Christian holy day of fasting and prayer. It is the start of the Lenten period that ends with Easter.

The Very Rev. John S. Evans, the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City vicar general and moderator of the curia, presided over Ash Wednesday mass for students and faculty from St. John the Baptist ...

Whether you're celebrating Lent or just lured by catfish, these 5 Augusta-area seafood restaurants come highly recommended.

Ash Wednesday is one of the most universally accessible ... events and the constant torrent of news, information, sound, images—all that flows over us and through us, but in internal ways ...

(Credit: Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images) He later set to work ... parish priest of the Holy Family church in Gaza. On Ash Wednesday, observant Catholics receive a sign of the cross ...

A priest makes the sign of the cross on the forehead of a man during the celebration of Ash Wednesday in Bogota, on February 14, 2024. Luis Acosta/Getty Images Since Ash Wednesday is not a ...