Ash Wednesday is a day away and begins the Christian season of Lent 2026. The 6-week period that leads up to Easter. What we ...

A parishioner receives ashes from a Deacon during Ash Wednesday mass on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026, at Gesu Catholic Church in downtown Miami. The mass was fully packed with standing rom only at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you passed by Gesù Catholic Church around lunchtime on Wednesday, you would’ve seen people pouring out onto the steps after the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of Christians will be observing the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18. The tradition has its roots in the Old ...

It's Ash Wednesday, marking the start of the Easter season for Christians. So what does Ash Wednesday mean? Here's what to know.

POPULAR ASH AND ASH. THE QUIET OUTSIDE OF FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH IN WHITE OAK DIDN’T LAST VERY LONG. WEDNESDAY MORNING. UNDER THE DUST, YOU SHALL RETURN. AS THE CLOCK STRUCK SIX. THE FIRST CARS ROLLED ...

Ash Wednesday, in most Christian denominations, is the beginning of the Lenten season leading up to Easter Sunday. It is observed with a service where the faithful are marked with ashes. Many adults, ...

Wisconsin Live Desk talks with the pastor at Church of the Gesu about Ash Wednesday and the services. Winter storm maps show states to get hit hardest later this week Young voters are turning away ...

If you passed by Gesù Catholic Church around lunchtime on Wednesday, you would’ve seen people pouring out onto the steps after the Ash Wednesday service. The mass, one of many held at the downtown ...

As cars rushed down Woodbine Road on Wednesday morning, a cross, draped in Lenten purple linens and shrouded in morning fog beckoned commuters into a normally quiet park-and-ride lot just off ...

The Easter season begins today with Ash Wednesday, and for Christians, it is a time to focus on repentance and self-denial leading up to the holiday that the faithful believe celebrates the ...

On this day, millions of Christians worldwide gather for church services, where clergy mark worshippers foreheads with ashes in the shape of a cross.