Washington Co., WI – Ash Wednesday is tomorrow, March 5, 2025, and below is a list of Mass schedules from across Washington County, Wi. If you don’t see your church service in the article, please post below and it will be added.
Saint Frances Cabrini: 8 a.m.
Saint Mary’s Immaculate Conception: 6:15 a.m., Noon and 7 p.m. in Spanish
Holy Angels: Word Service with Ash Distribution at 7 a.m., Mass with Ash Distribution at 8 a.m., Word Service with Ash Distribution at 12 p.m., Mass with Ash Distribution at 5:30 p.m.
Holy Trinity, Newburg: 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.
St. Peter Catholic Church in Slinger at 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
St. Lawrence 8 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Resurrection Catholic Church in Allenton. Ash Wednesday Masses at 12 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
Good Shepherd Lutheran, 777 S. Indiana Ave, West Bend has Ash Wednesday service at 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.
St. John’s Lutheran West Bend services Wednesday 3:30 p.m. and 6 p.m.
St. Kilian in Hartford with Mass at 8:20 a.m., prayer service with ashes at 12 p.m., and Mass at 7 p.m.
St. John, Rubicon, 5:30 p.m. – Mass
Ash Wednesday services will be held as follows at Holy Hill: 6 a.m. and 11 a.m. in the Basilica – Level 3.
The Season of Lent begins this Ash Wednesday with the signing of ashes. And as the cross is being traced on your forehead you will hear, ‘remember that you are dust, and unto dust you shall return,’ or you may hear, ‘turn away from sin and be faithful to the Gospel.’
This ritual begins a 40-day retreat towards the Great Easter Vigil by renewing and deepening our commitment to God by cooperating with the Holy Spirit and allowing the Spirit to recreate us anew in the love of Christ Jesus so that we can be empowered to love
and to embrace our crosses like Jesus, who remained humble and obedient to his Father’s will, even till death on a cross.
Yes, the Season of Lent is about sharing in Christ’s sufferings so that we can be formed into the pattern of his death. And this is done by confidently embracing the crosses in our lives rather than avoiding them, and by seeing in them the potter at work, who is the Spirit,
molding us and testing us in the furnace of tribulation and trial. For sure, one doesn’t have to go looking too far for these crosses as life presents us with many opportunities.
Yes, Lent is an invitation to allow God to embrace us with the loving and merciful arms of his Son, Christ Jesus, so that we can know the Father’s love. Indeed, it is this Fatherly love that enables us to persevere in the journey toward Easter as a people of prayer, fasting,
and almsgiving. And thus, in this Lenten asceticism, we gradually overcome that selfishness and ignorance, which only leads us and others to falling into a pit, and
we become, little by little, good guides and teachers, who are known by the fruits of our lives. Blessed Lent.
Fr Mark-Joseph DeVelis, OCD
Prior & Rector at Holy Hill
