Therefore, while the word is absent in the Bible, the reality of Lent is woven throughout the whole of Scripture, as we have ...

Ash Wednesday 2023, in Christianity ... Examples of the practice among Jews are found in several other books of the Bible, including Numbers 19:9, 19:17, Jonah 3:6, Book of Esther 4:1, and ...

(WBOY) — Christians all over West Virginia and the world observed Ash Wednesday this week ... were anointed with ash in ...

Prayer and almsgiving are also important parts of the Lenten season. Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent, so it also falls on Wednesday, March 5. Easter falls on Sunday, April 20 this year.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Ashes in the form of a cross could be seen across the foreheads of many Catholics and other Christians on March 5, marking the solemn day of Ash Wednesday and the start of ...

The 88-year-old Pope has chronic lung disease. This Ash Wednesday, millions of Catholics are lifting Francis up in prayer. "Putting on ashes was always a sin of repentance, a sin of acknowledging ...