Skip to main content
  • Home
  • About
  • Faculty Experts
  • For The Media
  • Videos
  • Topics
    • Alumni
    • Events
    • Faculty
    • Library
    • Research
    • Students
    • All Topics
  • Contact
  • Submit
Campus & Community
  • All News
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Economy
  • Campus & Community
  • Health & Society
  • Media, Law & Policy
  • STEM
  • Veterans
  • |
  • Alumni
  • The Peel
  • Athletics
Sections
  • All News
  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Economy
  • Campus & Community
  • Health & Society
  • Media, Law & Policy
  • STEM
  • Veterans
  • |
  • Alumni
  • The Peel
  • Athletics
  • Home
  • About
  • Faculty Experts
  • For The Media
  • Videos
  • Topics
    • Alumni
    • Events
    • Faculty
    • Library
    • Research
    • Students
    • All Topics
  • Contact
  • Submit
Campus & Community

Ash Wednesday Schedule Announced

Tuesday, February 9, 2021, By News Staff
Share
Ash WednesdayCatholic CenterHendricks Chapel

Ash Wednesday is Feb. 17, marking the beginning of the Christian season of Lent. Lent is a 40-day period of reflection that guides people of Christian faith to the “Triduum,” or Sacred Three Days, that begins on the evening of Maundy (Holy) Thursday and ends on Easter Sunday.

To adhere with COVID-19 health guidelines, ashes will be distributed this year by way of an “open house” format, at Hendricks Chapel and also at the Catholic Center, located at 110 Walnut Place. Those desiring ashes will enter the respective location during the prescribed times and proceed, socially distanced, to the front of the chapel where a minister will sprinkle ashes on the head of the participant, rather than rubbing ashes directly on the forehead, while speaking the challenging words of repentance.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse, in addition to various additional Christian denominations, have implemented such changes across all of their parishes, congregations and worship communities.

Father Gerry Waterman, Catholic chaplain at Syracuse University, will celebrate a virtual Ash Wednesday Mass at 9 a.m. which will be livestreamed on the Catholic Center’s YouTube page and will later be available on all of the SU Catholic social media platforms. The distribution of ashes at Hendricks Chapel will include participation from several of the University’s Christian chaplains.

The complete schedule for the distribution of ashes is as follows:

  • 7:30–8:30 a.m. “Open House Distribution of Ashes” at the Catholic Center, 110 Walnut Place
  • 9 a.m. Virtual Ash Wednesday Mass, to be hosted online by the Catholic Center
  • 11 a.m.– 12:30 p.m. “Open House Distribution of Ashes” at Hendricks Chapel
  • 3–5 p.m. “Open House Distribution of Ashes” at Hendricks Chapel
  • 7–7:30 p.m. “Open House Distribution of Ashes” at the Catholic Center

For more information, contact Hendricks Chapel at 315.443.2901 or chapel@syr.edu, or Father Waterman at 315.443.2600 or fwaterma@syr.edu.

  • Author

News Staff

  • Recent
  • Behind the Greens with Drumlins’ Peter McPartland
    Friday, June 24, 2022, By Abby Haessig
  • Tips for Managing Your Spring (Achoo!) Allergies
    Friday, June 24, 2022, By Diane Stirling
  • 9 Faculty Members Presented NSF CAREER Awards
    Friday, June 24, 2022, By Diane Stirling
  • Faculty expert reflects on 80th anniversary of Holocaust publication
    Thursday, June 23, 2022, By Vanessa Marquette
  • Syracuse Views Spring/Summer 2022
    Wednesday, June 22, 2022, By News Staff

More In Campus & Community

Behind the Greens with Drumlins’ Peter McPartland

As the 2022 golf season gets into full swing, Drumlins Country Club Golf Course Superintendent Peter McPartland is up with the sun, leading his crew and tending to the greens, with his puppy, Bogey, by his side. “Pete is most…

Tips for Managing Your Spring (Achoo!) Allergies

Runny nose. Scratchy throat. Watery, itchy, red eyes. Cough, cough. Aaaaaahh-chooooo! What’s up with you? It’s likely you’re suffering from outdoor seasonal allergies. In the Syracuse-Central New York region, a place regularly cited as fairly high on the nation’s list…

9 Faculty Members Presented NSF CAREER Awards

A total of nine Syracuse University faculty members have received CAREER awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development program during the 2021-22 academic year. This is the largest number of the prestigious NSF awards earned in…

You’re Invited: Race Across the U.S. With the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion

Have your New Year’s resolutions gone stagnant? Turn them into Monday resolutions and foster a sustainable approach to well-being with the Healthy Monday Race Across the U.S. beginning July 11! The University’s Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion has teamed…

Irina Savinetskaya Joins Special Collections Research Center as Early to Pre-20th Century Curator

Irina Savinetskaya has joined Syracuse University Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) as curator, early to pre-20th century, effective June 13. Prior to joining the Libraries, Savinetskaya was a cataloguer and researcher for Martayan Lan Rare Books, a leading rare…

Subscribe to SU Today

If you need help with your subscription, contact sunews@syr.edu.

Connect With Us

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
Social Media Directory

For the Media

Find an Expert Follow @SyracuseUNews
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • LinkedIn
  • @SyracuseU
  • @SyracuseUNews
  • @SUCampus
  • Social Media Directory
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy
  • Campus Status
  • Syracuse.edu
© 2022 Syracuse University News. All Rights Reserved.