A couple was mysteriously burned on the forehead after receiving the mark of the cross on Ash Wednesday. Sara Heloísa Sousa and her boyfriend Luan Jackson from Brazil shared their stories after ...

The Rev. Erin Daniels, pastor of Crossroads Church in Waverly, makes the sign of the cross with ashes on the forehead of church member Sally Leach during an Ash Wednesday service Wednesday afternoon.

Worshippers gathered at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in San Pedro on Wednesday, March 5, to observe the start of Lent.

The Rev. Marion Phipps provides the Ash Wednesday services and offers each ... The practice of placing ashes on the forehead in the shape of a cross is a symbolic reminder that Christians need ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Holy Cross Catholic Church in Santa Barbara took Ash Wednesday to the streets. For the second consecutive year, the church hosted a drive-thru Ash Wednesday service on ...

The faithful trudged up the hill to Mater Dolorosa Passionist Retreat Center on the first Ash Wednesday after the ... St. Paul of the Cross fountain, and Stations of the Cross were damaged.

A day to repent, reflect and pray. Worshippers flocked to St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan to mark Ash Wednesday. Services started at 7 a.m., with many attending mass, where members of the ...

Trinity Lutheran Church in Mount Joy hosted Ash Wednesday activities geared toward children and youth Wednesday evening. Open to the public, the event featured a soup supper; a church service ...

Vigneron reflected on how many times he has led the Ash Wednesday Mass, many of them at St. Aloysius, since he became archbishop in 2009. During the Mass, Vigneron wore a red skullcap wore by some ...

Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Share 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 ...

A Catholic Mass was reportedly celebrated for the staff at the White House today in observance of Ash Wednesday ... followers of Christ wear crosses of ash on their foreheads — a sacred ...

On Ash Wednesday, observant Catholics receive a sign of the cross in ashes on their foreheads, a gesture that underscores human mortality. It is an obligatory day of fasting and abstinence for ...