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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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Ash Wednesday spooked by coronavirus

Today, Feb. 26, Catholic and Aglipayan priests in many towns of this predominantly Christian Southeast Asian archipelago, including the cities of Manila and Makati,...

Filipino Catholics enter 40-day Lent

As Catholics entered Wednesday the 40-day solemn and religious observance as reminder of compassion and sacrifice, Church leaders encouraged the faithful to participate in...

Ash Wednesday ushers in Lent

Millions of Filipino Catholics will troop to churches today to observe Ash Wednesday, the start of the 40-day Lenten period. The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines...
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