{"id":117354,"date":"2026-02-18T19:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/117354\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T19:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:24:11","slug":"ash-wednesday-at-the-cathedral-of-st-catharine-of-siena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/117354\/","title":{"rendered":"Ash Wednesday at the Cathedral of St. Catharine of Siena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allentown Bishop Alfred A. Schlert places ashes on the foreheads of students during Ash Wednesday Mass at the Cathedral of St. Catharine of Siena in Allentown.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Sydney Derrick, 8, a student at St. John Vianney Regional School, shows off her ashes during Ash Wednesday Mass on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026, at the Cathedral of St. Catharine of Siena in Allentown. (Jane Therese\/Special to The Morning Call)\" width=\"2400\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/TMC-L-AshWednesday15.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"967301\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CHRIS SHIPLEY \/ SPECIAL TO THE MORNING CALL<\/p>\n<p>Sydney Derrick, 8, a student at St. John Vianney Regional School, shows off her ashes during Ash Wednesday Mass on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026, at the Cathedral of St. Catharine of Siena in Allentown. (Jane Therese\/Special to The Morning Call)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Allentown Bishop Alfred A. Schlert places ashes on the forehead of a student from St. John Vianney Regional School during Ash Wednesday Mass on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026, at the Cathedral of St. Catharine of Siena in Allentown. (Jane Therese\/Special to The Morning Call)\" width=\"2400\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/TMC-L-AshWednesday12.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"967306\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MICHAEL KUBEL \/ THE MORNING CALL<\/p>\n<p>Allentown Bishop Alfred A. Schlert places ashes on the forehead of a student from St. John Vianney Regional School during Ash Wednesday Mass on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026, at the Cathedral of St. Catharine of Siena in Allentown. (Jane Therese\/Special to The Morning Call)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Allentown Bishop Alfred A. Schlert places ashes on the foreheads of students during Ash Wednesday Mass at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,139,727,729,728],"class_list":{"0":"post-117354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-photos-and-videos","13":"tag-uncategorized","14":"tag-vertical-photo-gallery"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}