Cardinal Justin Rigali, Archbishop of Philadelphia, will celebrate Mass and distribute ashes during the Mass on:

Ash Wednesday, February 25, 2004
12:05 p.m.
Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul
18th and Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia

Ash Wednesday signifies the beginning of Lent for Christians throughout the world. Lent is the penitential season of prayer and sacrifice from Ash Wednesday through Holy Thursday, in preparation for Easter. Catholics throughout the archdiocese will visit their parish churches to receive the blessed ashes, which are marked in the sign of a cross on the foreheads of the faithful. The symbolic ashes remind the faithful of their mortality.

In the chapel adjacent to the Cathedral, distribution of ashes will take place after the following Masses: 7:15 a.m., 8:00 a.m., 12:35 p.m. and 5:15 p.m.

Cardinal Rigali will also celebrate a Mass for young people at Our Lady of Consolation Parish in Northeast Philadelphia on Ash Wednesday.

Come Home Liturgy
7:00 p.m.
Our Lady of Consolation Parish
7051 Tulip Street
Northeast Philadelphia

The Come Home Liturgy is attended each year by hundreds of grade school, high school and college students.

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