1. Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent. Ash Wednesday begins the 40 days in which the Church calls the faithful to conversion and to truly prepare to live the mysteries of the passion, death ...

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a 40-day period of repentance for Western Christians. Some Christians have ashes applied to their foreheads in the shape of a cross as an outward sign of ...

World-wide, the Catholic church is preparing to enter the liturgical season of Lent, marked as a time of prayer, fasting and almsgiving lasting 40 days, starting with Ash Wednesday and ending with ...