Ash Wednesday falls on March 5 this year, marking the start of Lent. Here's why some people wear ashes on their foreheads ...
Online shopping has become a way of life — even for the Catholic Church. In preparation for Ash Wednesday, a rising number of ...
8. Ashes can be received by non-Catholics. Anyone can receive this sacramental, even non-Catholics. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church states in No. 1670: “Sacramentals do not confer the ...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Holy Cross Catholic Church in Santa Barbara took Ash Wednesday to the streets. This is the second year ...
In the Catholic Church, ashes are applied to the forehead of each worship attendee at Ash Wednesday mass services. The receiving of ashes is not a sacrament of the Catholic Church and is ...
St. Theresa Catholic Church will have a Mardi Gras celebration ... fasting and almsgiving, Lent. "We impose ashes on ourselves to remind us of our sin," the Rev. Raphael Assamah said.
The ashes are meant to move our hearts heavenward.
The Vatican says that Pope Francis has increased his physical activity, called the Catholic parish priest in Gaza and marked ...