Christians all over West Virginia and the world observed Ash Wednesday this week. The day marks the first day of Lent and ...

Ash Wednesday is a day away and begins the Christian season of Lent. The 6-week period that leads up to Easter. What we know on date, meaning and more.

Also known as the Day of Ashes, this traditional day of repentance for Christians, and observed by various denominations, involves fasting and mass.

Ash Wednesday is a yearly reminder about one’s beginnings/one’s end, one’s short life/ mortality and one’s eternal life/immortality, and one’s present/temporal as well as one’s future/eternal dwelling ...

Therefore, while the word is absent in the Bible, the reality of Lent is woven throughout the whole of Scripture, as we have discovered." Ash Wednesday is to be observed by fasting and ...