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Ash Wednesday today too—CBCP

Today is not just Valentine’s Day, but also Ash Wednesday -- the day when the Catholic faithful receive ashes on their foreheads, marking the...

Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day

Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, ushers not just the beginning of the Lenten Season but, more importantly, a celebration in the commemoration of...

Preparing for lent

Rev. Father Jerry Habunal of the Divine Healer Parish Church in Sucat, Parañaque leads the burning of palm leaves or ‘palaspas’ on Saturday in...

PBBM calls for ‘quiet reflection’ for Lent

As the country celebrates Ash Wednesday this year, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. called on Filipinos for a “quiet reflection” of the event that ushers...

Ash Wednesday

Catholic devotees queue up for the ash on their forehead signifying the canon ‘from dust to dust’ in humanity’s existence, at the Baclaran Church...

Church resumes Ash Wednesday rites

Churches under the Archdiocese of Manila and the Diocese of Kalibo would again allow the putting of ashes on the foreheads of Catholics on...

Devotees ‘in heaven’ for Ash Wednesday ritual

Thousands of Filipinos flocked to churches to observe Ash Wednesday, with Catholic priests and nuns daubing their foreheads with a cross for the first...

Ash protest

‘Running priest’ Father Robert Reyes urged election officials not to ‘burn’ the vote of the Filipino people while smearing ashes on people passing in...

Philippines celebrates Ash Wednesday as COVID rules lift

Thousands of Filipinos flocked to churches to observe Ash Wednesday, with Catholic priests and nuns daubing their foreheads with a cross for the first...

Ashes for Ash Wednesday

A priest and clergy lead the burning of palm leaves at Jesus The Divine Healer Parish in BF Homes, Parañaque City on Monday, in...

Life and death

"The last year seemed to many of us a perpetual Lent."   I am going to die. That is what the ashes strewn on my head on...

New normal: Use of cotton balls, sprinkling of ash for Holy Week

This year’s Ash Wednesday would make use of cotton balls for the faithful who wish to have ash on their forehead, according to the...

Choices in COVID-19 times

The eve of Holy Week in the Gregorian calendar, less than two weeks before the end of the one-month lockdown, which comes 40 days...

From dust to life

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