Volunteers spent hours on a recent Saturday pulling up buffelgrass at Sentinel Peak Park to kick off the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum’s annual “Save our Saguaros” month. “Save our Saguaros” month ...

ST. LOUIS — Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, the time leading up to Holy Week and Easter Sunday. This year it falls on Feb. 18. Some St. Louis area churches are offering drive-thru ash ...

The cars roll up to Christ Church in Ridgewood and snake around the block, waiting for their turn at the drive-thru. Then Rev. Tom Matthews, the church rector, emerges to perform the ancient, annual ...

The Christian observance of Ash Wednesday Feb. 18 this year and will mark the season of Lent, leading up to Easter. Lent is one of five key periods on the Catholic liturgical calendar, along with ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Following the parades and parties of Mardi Gras, people across the Baton Rouge area will mark Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday in 2026 is being observed on Wednesday, Feb. 18.

It’s a common experience for Ash Wednesday Massgoers: The pews are packed with many attendees, many of whom are unfamiliar to regular parishioners. Who are all these people, and why are they there?

Ash Wednesday is Wednesday, March 5. It is the first day of Lent, a 40-day season of prayer, fasting and giving. On Ash Wednesday, priests place ash crosses on worshipers' foreheads to indicate they ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. For many Christians, this week brings Ash ...

T.R. Reid’s “Ash Wednesday and our Shared Dust” (Houses of Worship, Feb. 13) expresses the seeming contradiction between wearing ashes in public on Ash Wednesday and Jesus’ admonition not to display ...

If the 3-foot wall of weeds in your neighbor’s yard wasn’t enough of a clue, experts are predicting an early and impressive wildflower display across parts of Southern Arizona. Unusually warm and wet ...

A Day of Ashes and Reflection. We answer some of the most common questions about the Christian tradition known as Ash Wednesday. What is Ash Wednesday? Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, a period ...

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