In both wildfires, houses of worship fell to ash. But much of the conversation Wednesday focused as much on renewal as on ruin. “The recent fire has left visible scars on our beloved grounds ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

In the Catholic Church, ashes are applied to the forehead of each worship attendee at Ash Wednesday mass services. The ...

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

On this day, Catholics flock to worship places to attend Mass and to have their foreheads marked with ashes as a symbol of repentance from sin. Ash Wednesday is also a day of fasting and abstinence.

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 ...

St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Aurora will open Lent with an annual Dixieland worship service, a Mardi Gras-style luncheon and Ash Wednesday services including a drive-through imposition of ashes.