Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent and its observance lasts for 40 days. ... Rev. Gregory Wilson, pastor at St. Mary’s Help of Christians Catholic church in Aiken, ...

Members of the Catholic Church, ages 18 to 59, are required to observe Lent and fast on Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are known as obligatory days of abstinence. Children 14 and ...

Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent, a 40-day period of penance and prayer that ends at Easter. For observant Christians, it's a day of repentance and a time to confess sins and profess devotion ...

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent and its observance lasts for 40 days. ... Rev. Gregory Wilson, pastor at St. Mary’s Help of Christians Catholic church in Aiken, ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — Ash Wednesday is the beginning of Lent, a 40-day period of fasting, prayer and reflection in ...

Rev. Stephen Hamilton, pastor, traces a cross on the forehead of a woman during an Ash Wednesday service at St. Monica Catholic Church in Edmond, Oklahoma on Wednesday, March 5, 2014.

Rev. Amanda Hambrick-Ashcraft, a minister at Middle Church, applies ash and purple glitter to Kelebohile Nkhereanye near the Stonewall Inn National Monument during "Glitter + Ash Wednesday" in ...

Worshippers gathered at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in San Pedro on Wednesday, March 5, to observe the start of the solemn 40-day season of Lent, which leads up to Easter.

Rev. Gregory Wilson, pastor at St. Mary’s Help of Christians Catholic church in Aiken, South Carolina, offers believers two things to consider when observing Ash Wednesday: prayer and sacrifice.

Fr. Kevin Nolan blesses students from Holy Trinity Catholic School and Pre-School with a mark of the cross during Ash Wednesday Mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in San Pedro on Wednesday ...