When does Lent 2026 begin? What day is Ash Wednesday? When is Easter this year? What we know on why Christians do Lent and Holy Week dates for this year.
This last Sunday before Lent offers us a lesson in what is expected of us as disciples, and Jesus maps out the road we need ...
Ash Wednesday begins the holy season of Lent. Here are 10 important things to know about Ash Wednesday and its significance.
Each Lent, I reflect on the apparent contradiction the day seems to hold.
Ash Wednesday is a day away and begins the Christian season of Lent 2026. The 6-week period that leads up to Easter. What we ...
One of the kids asked, ‘where do the ashes come from?’” Unsatisfied with giving the boy the quickest answer — that the ashes came from a local religious-goods store — Father Weir decided to dig into ...
Another essential message presented to us as we received ashes is that we are to “Turn away from sin and be faithful to the Gospel.” Scripture often equates sin with darkness – the inability to see ...
Adam and Eve will observe Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday together as they remember their mortality amidst a love that ...
OR Mt 5:20-22a, 27-28, 33-34a, 37 In a sense, it's all been leading to this. During these weeks of Ordinary Time, the Gospel ...
Ash Wednesday can take place anywhere from Feb. 4 through March 10, and this year, it falls on the earlier side.
I try, on the next day and the next, to imagine I still have ashes on me, that I am constantly being called to live up to the beliefs I claim to hold.