Here's everything you need to know about Ash Wednesday and Lent and more on what these religious practices are all about.

Easter Sunday is still about two months away, but the Easter season kicks off in one week with the arrival of Ash Wednesday.

Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, Archbishop of Newark, will lead two Ash Wednesday Masses on March 5 at St. Patrick’s Pro-Cathedral ...

Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, a day in which many Christians attend a church service and receive ashes in the shape of a ...

Ash Wednesday begins the Christian season of Lent. The 6-week period is a tectonic time of year leading up to Easter. What we ...

Lent is a 40-day season of prayer and fasting observed by Christians. Lent will start on Ash Wednesday, March 5. It ends on ...

Ash Wednesday is on Wednesday, March 5, 2025. The day signals the beginning of Lent, a period Roman Catholics participate ...

For the third year in a row, Holy Cross Church off Cliff Drive in Santa Barbara is taking Ash Wednesday to the streets by ...

Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday, also lasts for 40 days, or around six and half weeks. If you are planning to observe the ...

Easter falls on the first Sunday after the full moon that occurs on or after the spring equinox. This year, Easter is Sunday, ...

During some Ash Wednesday services, a pastor will rub the sign of the cross with ashes onto the foreheads of worshipers. The ...

Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., archbishop of Newark, will celebrate two Masses on Ash Wednesday, March 5, at St.