'Ashes to Go' offers parishioners opportunity to participate in special services for Ash Wednesday ASH WEDNESDAY IS A HOLY DAY OF REFLECTION. IT’S OBSERVED BY FASTING AND RECEIVING ASHES.

Leslie Birke, 40, had a series of doctor’s appointments Wednesday morning and was headed to work in the early afternoon when she saw an “ashes to go” sign at Christ Church Cathedral.

What would you do if a parent’s clear instructions were being challenged by relatives who now wanted to divide the ashes differently? Would you agree so you don’t have to keep talking to them? Or ...

He posted an Ashes to Go sign and waited. He didn’t have to wait long for Kimberly Piccirilli, who lives close to the church and stopped off before heading to work.

“We gave ashes to more than 75 people last year,” Floyd said. At first, commuters seemed puzzled by the sign that read “Ashes to Go” that sat next to the doughnuts and coffee.

For anyone unable to stop by a Mass to receive ashes, several local churches are offering Ashes to Go.

Ashes to Go provides the opportunity to participate in that tradition for people who have lost their connection to a church, work during their church's services, or have never participated before.

Ashes To Go, offered by Episcopal and Methodist churches throughout the country since 2007, according to the website ashestogo.org, provides areas where people can get the ash cross on their ...

There’s a convenient way to receive ashes in Leechburg on Ash Wednesday. The Revs. Gary and Lisa Lyon, co-pastors at Cross Roads Community Presbyterian Church in Leechburg, offer “Ashes to Go ...

DUMONT — Phil Foschini was in a hurry on Wednesday morning, when he saw a sign. The sandwich board outside Old North Reformed Church advertising "Ashes to Go" caught his eye, and he made a U ...

Instead of sitting through a service, churches offering Ashes to Go, give the Christian sign of repentance — a smudged cross of ashes on the forehead — to anyone who seeks it in train stations ...

With 46 days until Easter Sunday, churches across the Baltimore area found ways to make it easier to help more people take part in the holy reflection observed by fasting and receiving ashes.