After watching a video of how ashes will be distributed on the first Ash Wednesday of the pandemic, a parishioner told Rev. Ralph D’Elia it was upsetting. Everything was changing, the person said.

What's old is new again because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Most Christians marking Ash Wednesday this week won't get the familiar cross of ashes traced on their foreheads. Rather, local Roman ...

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DALLAS — Ash Wednesday, an important day for Catholics, is going to look different this year. Instead of the priest or deacon using ashes to make the sign of the cross on people's foreheads ...

Ash Wednesday is one of the busiest days of the year for the Buffalo Diocese. “If you talk to any church secretary ... been ...

During his 2021 Lenten Message, Bishop J. Douglas Deshotel of the Diocese of Lafayette announced changes to Ash Wednesday services. "This year the ashes may be distributed a little differently ...

PORTLAND, Maine — To mark the beginning of the Lenten season, Bishop Robert Deeley will celebrate Ash Wednesday Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland on Feb. 17 at 12: ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Ash Wednesday traditionally draws Northeast Ohio Catholics to church, to line up to have ashes smudged on their foreheads, as a symbol of penance. This year, the Catholic ...

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