Children and the elderly are exempt from the fasting requirement on Ash Wednesday and during Lent. Catholics receive ashes on their forehead from Bishop Mark J. Seitz, who conducted a worship ...

The rituals and traditions associated with Ash Wednesday contribute to the rich history of Christian worship and devotion. Roman Catholics, Lutherans, Anglicans, Baptists and Methodists are the ...

In the Catholic Church, ashes are applied to the forehead of each worship attendee at Ash Wednesday mass services. The receiving of ashes is not a sacrament of the Catholic Church and is therefore ...

Is Ash Wednesday a holy day of obligation ... The Bible commands a lifestyle of worship and devotion that looks considerably like Lent. Therefore, while the word is absent in the Bible, the ...

(NEXSTAR) – Ash Wednesday, which marks the start of the ... director of the Office for Worship with the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, and Father Martin Schlag, a professor and chair of Catholic ...

In the Catholic Church, ashes are applied to the forehead of each worship attendee at Ash Wednesday mass services. The receiving of ashes is not a sacrament of the Catholic Church and is therefore ...

Here are five interesting facts about Lent. 1. The meaning of ashes Ash Wednesday worship involves church services where ashes are placed in the shape of a cross on worshipers' foreheads.

Join us on Wednesday, March 5, at 7 a.m. in the Community Room for our Ash Wednesday worship service. POTTSTOWN — As part of ongoing monthly sharing, Zion’s United Church of Christ ...

Lent has begun for many in typical ways, with fish fries as well as Ash Wednesday worship services or occasions where one could stop and get ashes given out drive-by style. In churches such as one ...

Bush said she was disappointed she had to alter her Ash Wednesday worship services. But she also said she is looking forward to celebrating the start of Lent with her congregation on Sunday instead.

Price St., welcomes all to join in worship on Sunday for Transfiguration Sunday. The service will be available on YouTube later in the day. The Ash Wednesday service will be virtual and available ...