{"id":170038,"date":"2026-02-18T17:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/170038\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T17:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:59:07","slug":"people-receive-ashes-blessings-at-first-united-methodist-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/170038\/","title":{"rendered":"People receive ashes, blessings at First United Methodist Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Corpus Christi churchgoers received ashes on their foreheads on Feb. 18 in observance of Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the 40-day Lenten season in the Christian calendar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Many churches in Corpus Christi held services for the holy day, and some offered &#8220;ashes to go&#8221; for people unable to spend their morning at Mass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Make plans: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/articles\/fun-things-corpus-christi-area-104626672.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Fun things to do in Corpus Christi area Feb. 19 through Feb. 22;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fun things to do in Corpus Christi area Feb. 19 through Feb. 22<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">First United Methodist Church was one institution offering the services, which allowed drivers to swing by to receive ashes and blessings.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">John Oliva covers entertainment and community news in South Texas. Have a story idea? Contact him at john.oliva@caller.com.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/offers.caller.com\/specialoffer?gps-source=CPTOPNAVBAR&amp;utm_campaign=specialoffer&amp;utm_medium=onsite&amp;utm_source=topnavbar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Consider supporting local journalism with a\u00a0subscription to the Caller-Times;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Consider supporting local journalism with a\u00a0subscription to the Caller-Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Corpus Christi Caller Times: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caller.com\/story\/news\/local\/2026\/02\/18\/first-united-methodist-church-gives-out-to-go-ashes-on-ash-wednesday-corpus-christi\/88738624007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:First United Methodist Church gives out to-go ashes on Ash Wednesday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">First United Methodist Church gives out to-go ashes on Ash Wednesday<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi churchgoers received ashes on their foreheads on Feb. 18 in observance of Ash Wednesday, the beginning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[68744,155,157,156,9755,68610],"class_list":["post-170038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-ashes","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-first-united-methodist-church","tag-lenten-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}