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Several Archdiocese of Chicago Catholic schools and parishes will host palm burning ceremonies to burn the previous year’s palm leaves that will be used for ashes on Ash Wednesday. Priests will bless the ashes before they are distributed during Ash Wednesday services.

March 6 is Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of the 2019 Lenten season, a solemn 40-day period devoted to reflection, prayer, spiritual preparation and fasting before Easter. On Ash Wednesday, Catholics will have ashes applied to their foreheads in the shape of cross. The ashes symbolize penance, mourning and mortality. For Catholics, the ashes are an outward expression of their faith.

Below is a list of Archdiocesan schools and parishes hosting palm burning ceremonies:

Sunday, March 3:
Queen of Martyrs Parish, 10233 Central Park Ave., Evergreen Park, after 9:30 a.m. Mass

Monday, March 4:
St. Julie Billiart Roman Catholic Church, 7399 W. 159th St., Tinley Park, 8:30 a.m.

St. Thomas Villanova School, 1141 E. Anderson Dr., Palatine in front of the school, 9 a.m.

Queen of the Universe School, 7130 S. Hamlin Ave., Chicago, in the parking lot behind the school, 10 a.m.

St. Gerald School, 9320 S. 55th Ct., Oak Lawn, at church door number #5 along Central Avenue, 1:30 p.m.

St. Christina School, 3333 W. 110th St., Chicago, 2 p.m.

Tuesday, March 5:
St. Benedict Preparatory School, 3900 N. Leavitt St., Chicago, in the school/parish parking lot, 8:10 a.m.

St. Theresa School, 445 N. Benton St., Palatine, in the parking lot at Entrance 2, 8:30 a.m.

Frances Xavier Warde Catholic School, Holy Name Cathedral Courtyard, 735 North State Street, Chicago, 9 a.m.

St. Alphonsus Liguori School, 411 N. Wheeling Rd., Prospect Heights, 9 a.m.

St. Bede School, 36399 N. Wilson Rd., Ingleside, Noon

St. Mary School, 97 Herrick Road, Riverside, 10 a.m.

St. Gilbert School, 231 E. Belvidere Rd., Grayslake, 11:20 a.m.

School of St. Mary Upper Grade Campus, 185 E. Illinois Rd., Lake Forest, 2:40 p.m.

The 24th Annual Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Jerusalem Lecture will take place at DePaul University in the Lincoln Park Student Center, 2250 N. Sheffield Ave., in Chicago (Room 120).

Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, will offer welcome and opening remarks.
Dr. Malka Simkovich, guest lecturer, is the Crown-Ryan Chair of Jewish Studies, director of the Catholic-Jewish Studies program at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, and Core Faculty member of Drisha Institute.
The lecture will focus on Jewish attitudes toward Christianity highlighting recent statements by leading rabbis and scholars from across the Jewish spectrum, making room for honest and serious discussion of theological differences between Judaism and Christianity.