The ashes pressed onto people’s foreheads during mass symbolize “fragility and mortality, and the need to be redeemed by the mercy of God,” according to the Catholic News Agency. With the ...

The ashes are gathered from burning the previous year's palm branches used during Palm Sunday, according to britannica.com. The modern-day Roman Catholic Church is credited for applying the ashes ...

Ashes can be purchased, but some churches make their own by burning the palms from prior years. For example, several parishes and schools in the Chicago Catholic Archdiocese plan to hold palm ...

The ashes, made from the burned palm fronds of the previous year's Palm Sunday, symbolize humility and the need for spiritual renewal. The practice was formalized by the Catholic Church as a way ...

Many Catholic churches pass out palms on Palm Sunday ... There’s an art to getting the ashes just right, though. According to the National Altar Guild Association, ashes must cool and be sifted ...

The ashes, applied on the forehead in the shape of a cross, are an outward expression of faith and reminder that humans are mortal. At St. Edna Catholic Church in Arlington Heights, Deacon Joe ...

7:00 a.m. Noon 5:10 p.m. Hendricks Chapel on the Syracuse University campus and the school’s Catholic Center on Walnut Place will holding service and the distribution of ashes at the following ...

Preparing the ashes, church leaders reminded students of their importance. A sign of the cross on each student's forehead signifies that we come from dust, and to dust we shall return.

The ashes are gathered from burning the previous year's palm branches used during Palm Sunday, according to britannica.com. The modern-day Roman Catholic Church is credited for applying the ashes ...