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Nigerian bishops urge people to pray for peace and stability
- Feb 20, 2021
In separate Ash Wednesday homilies, Catholic bishops advised Nigerians to use Lent to pray for peace and stability.
Detroit archbishop sprinkles ashes due to COVID-19 concerns
- Feb 18, 2021
Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron employed a more COVID-safe method of ash distribution during a special Ash Wednesday service downtown: He sprinkled, rather than marked.
For Lent, Pope asks Christians to focus on Cross as ‘silent throne of God’
- Feb 17, 2021
Kicking off the liturgical season of Lent, Pope Francis Wednesday said the next 40 days ought to be a time of conversion in which Christians let go of their vices and the things holding them back, and return to the source of healing and love, which is Christ.
Amid record snow, Texas scrambles to reconfigure Ash Wednesday
- Feb 17, 2021
Parishes across the state of Texas have canceled Ash Wednesday masses amidst a winter storm that’s left over three million people without power and brought record low temperatures all week.
Ashes mark beginning, not end, of new life, says theologian
- Feb 16, 2021
An Italian priest who was chosen by Pope Francis to lead his annual Lenten retreat in 2016, said that Ash Wednesday and Lent are a time to recall that new life emerges from the ashes and that spring blossoms from the bleakness of winter, said a noted Italian theologian.
During Lent, start fresh with the Church’s penitential practices
- Feb 14, 2021
Lent is an opportunity to mark the calendar, start fresh, and renew some things in our lives.
Canadian diocese offering ‘take home’ containers for Ash Wednesday
- Feb 13, 2021
During the pandemic, many bars and restaurants have adopted takeaway service, and now one Catholic bishop is following suit for Ash Wednesday.
On Ash Wednesday, Philippine archdiocese to let families distribute ashes
- Feb 12, 2021
An archdiocese in the Philippines will allow churchgoers to distribute ashes among family members at home to mark the beginning of Lent Feb. 17.
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