The Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver held Ash Wednesday services on March 5, 2025. Ash Wednesday is a holy day of prayer and fasting in many Western Christian denominations.

Catholics around the Lehigh Valley attended services to mark Ash Wednesday, observed on the first day of Lent. See photos below. The Rev. John A. Krivak, pastor at St. Theresa of the Child Jesus ...

New York's Catholics observe the start of Lent throughout the city on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Today marks the beginning of Christianity's 40 days of prayer, fasting and giving ahead of ...

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 ...

Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Share Ash Wednesday signals the start of Lent ... Easter in many Western Christian traditions. The following images capture Chicagoans participating in the meaningful ...

GREENWICH — Christ Church Greenwich had multiple ways for people to get their ashes on Ash Wednesday. The church hosted three Eucharist services with ashes and provided "Ashes to Go" in its ...

With a solemn mark of ashes on their foreheads, worshippers across Sonoma County gathered to observe Ash Wednesday, the start of the Lenten season. With a solemn mark of ashes on their foreheads ...

Adults, families and children attended other services throughout the day for Ash Wednesday, a Christian holy day of fasting and prayer. It is the start of the Lenten period that ends with Easter.

Ash Wednesday is one of the most universally accessible ... events and the constant torrent of news, information, sound, images—all that flows over us and through us, but in internal ways ...

14 images depicting events of Jesus' life on the day of his crucifixion that people can walk along and contemplate. Lent begins on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (Ash Wednesday) and ends at sundown on ...

FOX 13’s Kailey Tracy reports how Bay Area Catholics observed Ash Wednesday as Pope Francis continues battling double pneumonia in a Rome hospital.