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Photo Gallery: Ash Wednesday

For Easton Catholics-- and Catholics everywhere -- the Lenten season begins

 
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Parishioners sing the entrance while gathering for an Ash Wednesday service. Tara Connolly
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A parishioner partakes in Holy Water upon entering the church.
Parishioners sing the entrance while gathering for an Ash Wednesday service.
Congregation recites a prayer.
Ashes for Ash Wednesday services are made from burned palm fronds from the previous Palm Sunday celebration.
Monsignor Edward Zemanick, pastor of St. Anthony of Padua, blesses the ashes.
A parishioner is marked with the sign of the cross.

Today is Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent for Catholics around the world. Photographer Tara Connolly was at St. Anthony's in the West Ward as the faithful marked the occasion.

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