Ashes will be distributed during all services that will be held at various times on Ash Wednesday, March 5, at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church, 1500 Brookdale Road, Naperville, to mark the ...

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"It's deeper than abstaining from ice cream," said Fr. Bill Swichtenberg of St. Mary Catholic Community in Appleton.

When you start seeing King Cakes, jester masks, colorful beads and Cajun-inspired dishes, it must be Mardi Gras. Where to ...

Every year in February and March, you'll see people walking around with black smudges on their foreheads. There's a simple reason for it – it's Ash Wednesday, an important season for Christians. Ash ...

Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, is traditionally a day of excess before Ash Wednesday. In the Catholic Church, that's the start of Lent, a period of fasting and abstinence before Easter. It's kind of like ...

Ash Trevino, a TikTok content creator known for her relationships with incarcerated individuals, has sparked a new wave of attention on X (formerly Twitter) since January 26. The Texas-based ...

Unlike other holidays, the date that Easter Sunday falls on changes year to year and with it the dates of Ash Wednesday ... is also common practice in the Catholic church to abstain from eating ...

Fat Tuesday and the Mardi Gras celebrations will kick off a late start to the 2025 Lenten season — from Ash Wednesday to Easter ... also common practice in the Catholic church to abstain from ...

Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of the Catholic Diocese of Springfield in Illinois will celebrate Mass Wednesday morning during Catholic Schools Week. The Mass will be celebrated at 10am at St. Anthony of ...

Multiple sources tell FootballScoop that Freeman and the Irish are zeroing in on Chris Ash, the former Ohio State defensive coordinator and four-year head coach at Rutugers. The Athletic's Pete ...