Ash Wednesday gets its name from the practice of placing ashes on the foreheads of the faithful as a sign of penance.
Catholics observe Lent through fasting and abstinence, avoiding meat on specific days. These are some of the permitted foods.
Here’s when Ash Wednesday, Lent, Good Friday and Easter 2025 are, their origins and why the dates they fall on change every year. The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and ...
This year, Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent fall in March, almost a full month later. Here’s when Ash Wednesday, ...
ROME (TNND) — Vatican officials said Pope Francis is resting on this Ash Wednesday, the start of the solemn Lenten period.
beginning on Ash Wednesday, March 5, and ending at sundown on Holy Thursday, April 17. The name “Lent” is from the ...
Ash Wednesday, a Christian holy day marking the start of Lent, falls on March 5, 2025. Lent will extend for 46 days, concluding with Easter Sunday on April 20, 2025. While considered the ...
A cluster of new and forthcoming titles, including devotionals and other works by popular Christian pastors, theologians, and ...
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