{"id":7879,"date":"2025-02-27T18:48:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T23:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saparish.com\/church\/?p=7879"},"modified":"2025-02-27T18:49:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T23:49:45","slug":"ash-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saparish.com\/church\/news\/ash-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass times for Ash Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a sacred season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving as we prepare our hearts for Easter. During Mass, we receive ashes on our foreheads as a sign of repentance and a reminder of our call to turn away from sin and follow the Gospel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While this is not a holy day of obligation, Ash Wednesday is a wonderful opportunity to begin Lent with intention, to acknowledge our need for God\u2019s mercy, and to recommit to growing in faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mass times at St. Anthony:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wednesday, March 5<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mass with Distribution of Ashes at 8:30 a.m.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mass with Distribution of Ashes at 7 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Looking for more Mass times?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the diocesan website for a full list of Mass times at all parishes in our diocese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/grdiocese.org\/ash-wednesday-mass-times-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">More Mass Times<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a sacred season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving as we prepare our hearts for Easter. 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While this is not a&#8230;<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/saparish.com\/church\/news\/ash-wednesday\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mass times for Ash Wednesday - St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/saparish.com\/church\/news\/ash-wednesday\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mass times for Ash Wednesday - St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a sacred season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving as we prepare our hearts for Easter. 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