The church launched its drive-thru Ash Wednesday service eight years ago, taking part in an “Ashes to Go” campaign that urged taking church to the streets. “The church is very proud to be ...

Ash Wednesday is Wednesday ... The 64th leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Gregory, set the first official period of Lent in 601 AD, according to the Museum of the Bible. At this time, Lent ...

All the decorations are laid out for ... cancel their plans to commemorate Mardi Gras and Ash Wednesday this week. St. Theresa Catholic Church will have a Mardi Gras celebration from 5:30 to ...

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent for people of Christian faith. Each year, Catholics, Lutherans and other denominations around the world observe the 40-day period of self-sacrifice and ...

Wednesday is Ash Wednesday ... The cars came early at Faith Lutheran Church in White Oak. This is the the 10th year of 'Ash and Dash' at the church, where people can get ashes in their vehicle ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – For the third year in a row, Holy Cross Church in Santa Barbara is taking Ash Wednesday to the streets by hosting a Ash Wednesday Drive-Thru. Rev. Egren Gomez calls it ...

Correction: A previous version of this story showed an incorrect time for an Ash Wednesday service at Gethsemane Lutheran Church. Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the 40-day Lenten season in the ...

As it has done for the last several years, St. Hugh of Lincoln Episcopal Church in Elgin offered Christians a unique way to start the Lenten season by dispensing ashes via a drive-thru lane rather ...

The observance begins on Ash Wednesday, a day in which many Christians attend a church service and receive ashes in the shape of a cross on their foreheads. The gesture dates back thousands of ...