Ash Wednesday signals the start of Lent, a 40-day period of penance and spiritual preparation leading to Easter in many Western Christian traditions. The following images capture Chicagoans ...

The Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver held Ash Wednesday services on March 5, 2025. Ash Wednesday is ...

Photos: Catholics around the Lehigh Valley attended services to mark Ash Wednesday, observed on the first day of Lent.

With a solemn mark of ashes on their foreheads, worshippers across Sonoma County gathered to observe Ash Wednesday, the start ...

Hakan Kilic and his family celebrate his mother-in-law's birthday every year in Turkey's Yalova province next to a portrait ...

New York’s Catholics observe the start of Lent throughout the city on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Today marks the beginning ...

Thanks for joining today’s study about ashes, prompted this week by Ash Wednesday. If you are unfamiliar with Ash Wednesday, it marks the beginning of Lent — 40 days that ends on Palm Sunday ...

Nowadays it’s increasingly convenient to participate in the Lenten tradition of receiving ashes. One can just pull up to Reeves Temple CME, for example, to show the age-old sign they have a desire to ...

Lent is a period of prayer, fasting, and giving for Christians. Ashes represent death and repentance, reminding Christians of human mortality. Easter, the celebration of Jesus Christ's ...