Like the sacrifices many Christians make during the Lent season, Smela said the Ash Wednesday service is meant to prepare ...

That is our treasure. A priest friend of mine once went into a school on Ash Wednesday worried that the Ash on its own might not tell the whole story to this group of kids. So he mixed some glitter in ...

On Ash Wednesday, March 5, ashes were spread across people’s foreheads, and the person spreading the ashes said, “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” This phrase and the ...