One by one, a cross was etched with dark ashes across each student’s forehead. “This is why we run a Catholic school, to do stuff like this and live the liturgical life amongst the students,” The Rev.

Geiger, rector of Christ Episcopal Church, said during his Ash Wednesday sermon. “Sin is also the reasoning that evaluates our best actions by what people get out of it.” His sermon was based ...

Ash Wednesday marks the start of the season of Lent in the church ... The service includes readings, hymns, and a sermon. It will be sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey.

In 2009 during an Ash Wednesday sermon in Rome, then-Pope Benedict XVI said "It should be an "encouragement to conversion and sincere love for our brothers, especially those who are most poor and ...

They're celebrating Ash Wednesday, which for many also marks the start of Lent, a 40-day period of penance and reflection leading up to Easter. Here's what you need to know about a holiday marked ...

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent ... egotism and injustice. In his sermon “Three Dimensions of a Complete Life,” the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached, “Life’s most ...

Ash Wednesday begins the liturgical season of Lent for many Christian faiths. Catholics celebrate the day by attending Mass and receiving ashes on their forehead. The word on new PEEPS ...

St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Aurora celebrated the first Sunday in Lent, March 9, by welcoming a new senior pastor. The Rev.

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent for people of Christian faith. Each year, Catholics, Lutherans and other denominations around the world observe the 40-day period of self-sacrifice and ...