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Archdiocese of Newark enters Lent, celebrates Ash Wednesday (Photos)

Compiled by Jessica Miano & Jaimie Julia Winters

On Ash Wednesday — this year on Feb. 14 — Catholics began the season of Lent, a 40-day period of prayer, penance, almsgiving, and fasting intended to prepare us for Easter and bring us closer to God.

The Ash Wednesday tradition involves receiving a cross-shaped mark of ashes on the forehead as a symbolic gesture, reminding individuals of their mortal imperfections, and extending an invitation to seek forgiveness from God. Across various Christian denominations, believers observe this holy season for 40 days before Easter.

The ashes are from the burnt palms from the previous year’s Palm Sunday.

Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., Archbishop of Newark, celebrated two Masses on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 14, at St. Patrick’s Pro-Cathedral in Newark in English and Spanish.

In parishes and Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Newark, parishioners and students celebrated Masses and received ashes, an outward profession of their faith and a poignant reminder of their mortality.

Don Bosco Prep in Ramsey
Don Bosco Prep in Ramsey.
Academy of Our Lady in Glenrock.
Academy of Our Lady in Glen Rock.
St. Dominic Academy in Jersey City
St. Dominic Academy in Jersey City.
St. Patrick’s Pro-Cathedral Newark.
Holy Trinity School in Westfield
Holy Trinity School in Westfield.
St. Patrick Pro-cathedral in Newark.
Mount St. Dominic Academy Caldwell.
Seton Hall University.
Academy of Our Lady in Glen Rock.
Bergen Catholic in. Paramus.
Our Lady of Mercy Academy in Park Ridge.
Immaculate Heart of Mary in Scotch Plains.
St. Peters Prep in Jersey City.
St. Joseph’s in Oradell.
Cardinal Tobin at St. Patrick’s Pro-cathedral in Newark.
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