{"id":117568,"date":"2026-02-18T23:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/117568\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T23:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:57:10","slug":"alvernia-university-holds-ash-wednesday-service-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/117568\/","title":{"rendered":"Alvernia University holds Ash Wednesday service | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Put away the fastnachts, it&#8217;s Ash Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Bernardine Franciscan Sisters distributed ashes to Alvernia University employees, students and alumni earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>69 News stopped by the distribution at Veronica Hall Chapel this afternoon, one of several distributions at the school.<\/p>\n<p>Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent, the 40-day period leading up to Easter.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Easter falls on Sunday, April 5th for most Christians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Put away the fastnachts, it&#8217;s Ash Wednesday. The Bernardine Franciscan Sisters distributed ashes to Alvernia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2961,55642,50854,28,736,128,130,129,55843],"class_list":{"0":"post-117568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-alvernia-university","9":"tag-ash-wednesday","10":"tag-lent","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-reading","13":"tag-reading-city","14":"tag-reading-city-headlines","15":"tag-reading-city-news","16":"tag-veronica-hall-chapel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117568","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=117568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}