PHOTO COLLECTION: Ash Wednesday

A devotee with an ash cross on her forehead prays during Ash Wednesday rites March 5, 2025 at the Redemptorist Church in Manila, Philippines as Catholics in this predominantly Roman Catholic nation observe the start of lent. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Flint Powers Catholic sophomore Aliyah Rose, 15 at center, prays with her classmates after receiving the ash cross on her forehead along with hundreds of students during an Ash Wednesday service at Flint Powers Catholic High School, Wednesday, March 5, 2025, in Flint, Mich. (Jake May/MLive.com/The Flint Journal via AP)

A man prays outside a church before Ash Wednesday Mass in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Ash Wednesday for Catholics worldwide ushers in a period of penitence and reflection, known as the season of Lent, that leads up to Easter Sunday. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

A devotee with an ash cross on her forehead lights candles during Ash Wednesday rites March 5, 2025 at the Redemptorist Church in Manila, Philippines as Catholics in the this predominantly Roman Catholic nation observe the start of lent. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Cardinal Major Penitentiary Angelo De Donatis, left, sprinkles ashes over the head of a cardinal during the first mass of Lent on Ash Wednesday in Santa Sabina Basilica in Rome, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

A child is marked with an ash cross during an Ash Wednesday service in Guatemala City, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Catholics pray during an Ash Wednesday service at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Guatemala City, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Boniface Ugwo, a Catholic priest rubs the sign of the cross with ash on the forehead of worshipers on Ash Wednesday at the St Francis Catholic Church in Lagos, Nigeria, Wednesday, March 5, 2025.(AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

A devotee is marked with an ash cross on her the forehead during Ash Wednesday rites March 5, 2025 at the Redemptorist Church in Manila, Philippines as Catholics in the this predominantly Roman Catholic nation observe the start of lent. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Cardinals leave at the end the first mass of Lent presided over by Cardinal Major Penitentiary Angelo De Donatis on Ash Wednesday in Santa Sabina Basilica in Rome, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

A devotee with an ash cross on her the forehead lights candles during Ash Wednesday rites March 5, 2025 at the Redemptorist Church in Manila, Philippines as Catholics in the this predominantly Roman Catholic nation observe the start of lent. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Alissa Newton, Episcopal Reverse Canon of the ordinary, center left, applies Ashes to Go next to Rev. Matthew Heyd, the 17th Episcopal Bishop of New York, right, at Grand Central Station on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Devotees with ash cross on their foreheads light candles during Ash Wednesday rites March 5, 2025 at the Redemptorist Church in Manila, Philippines as Catholics in this predominantly Roman Catholic nation observe the start of lent. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Rev. Matthew Heyd, the 17th Episcopal Bishop of New York, offers Ashes to Go at Grand Central Station on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

A man burns old palm fronds to be used for Ash Wednesday rites at the Our Lady of Consolation Parish in Quezon city, Philippines on Tuesday, March 4, 2025 as Catholics prepare for the start of lent in this largely Roman Catholic nation. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Devotees line up to be marked with an ash cross on their foreheads during Ash Wednesday rites March 5, 2025 at the Redemptorist Church in Manila, Philippines as Catholics in the this predominantly Roman Catholic nation observe the start of lent. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Catholics pray during a mass on Ash Wednesday at Santhome Cathedral Basilica in Chennai, India, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

A Catholic holds a photograph of Pope Francis while offering prayers during a mass on Ash Wednesday at Santhome Cathedral Basilica in Chennai, India, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

Catholics pray during an Ash Wednesday service at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Guatemala City, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Catholics pray during a mass on Ash Wednesday at Santhome Cathedral Basilica in Chennai, India, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

Catholics pray during a mass on Ash Wednesday at Santhome Cathedral Basilica in Chennai, India, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

A member of the Episcopal Church, left, applies ashes on believers on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025 in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Members of the Joyful Brotherhood of the Burial of the Sardine gather during a mock funeral procession on Ash Wednesday, marking the end of the carnival, in downtown Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

People with their foreheads marked with crosses leave a church after attending Ash Wednesday Mass in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Ash Wednesday for Catholics worldwide ushers in a period of penitence and reflection, known as the season of Lent, that leads up to Easter Sunday. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)