Ash Wednesday is the first day of the season of Lent that leads up to Good Friday and Easter. What to know about the day.

During Mass on Ash Wednesday, Catholic priests draw crosses of ashes on parishioners' foreheads. Other Christian denominations and even those disconnected from traditions of faith, sometimes ...

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Another Ash Wednesday will soon be upon us, marking the beginning of another Lent. The pace and predictability of the liturgical year—like the academic year ...

Particular days of abstinence during Lent are Fridays, Ash Wednesday and Good Friday ... but these acts are done to draw the faithful closer to Christ. For example, a person may give up his ...

On Wednesday morning, Smith Leithart and his family were among the evacuees. He watched from his Castaic balcony, as smoke from the Hughes Fire made its way towards his home. Leithart noted ash ...

But heavy downpours on charred hillsides could bring the threat of new troubles like toxic ash runoff ... of thousands of people when it erupted Wednesday in mountains near the Lake Castaic ...

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the season of Lent ... Some Christians also take on a Lenten observance, like reading the Bible and spending more time in prayer to draw nearer to God. Strict ...

Lent is a 40-day season of prayer and fasting observed by Christians. Lent will start on Ash Wednesday, March 5. It ends on ...