ASH WEDNESDAY. A lay minister at the Immaculate Conception Parish in Mintal, Davao City marks churchgoers' foreheads ?on Wednesday ?with ashes from burned palm branches ?used from the the previous year's Palm Sunday mass. March 1 is the observance of the Catholics' Ash Wednesday, the first day of the Lenten Season.(Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
A lay minister at the Immaculate Conception Parish in Mintal, Davao City marks churchgoers’ foreheads ?on Wednesday ?with ashes from burned palm branches ?used from the the previous year’s Palm Sunday mass. March 1 is the observance of the Catholics’ Ash Wednesday, the first day of the Lenten Season.(Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)