PHOTO GALLERY: Worshippers in Columbia celebrate Ash Wednesday

February 13, 2013 | 7:54 p.m. CST

The St. Thomas More Newman Center and Sacred Heart Catholic Church celebrated Ash Wednesday Mass. Worshippers prayed, took Communion and received a cross of ashes on their foreheads in honor of the day. First Christian Church also observed Ash Wednesday.

Father Robert Barry, left, and Father Thomas Bailey place ashes on the foreheads of Catholic worshippers in the shape of a cross during Ash Wednesday Mass at St. Thomas More Newman Center. | Peter Marek

Worshippers move in lines as Father Herbert C. Hayek and Deacon Bill Caubet place a cross of ash on a their foreheads during an Ash Wednesday Mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. | Showkat Nanda

Father Herbert C. Hayek, right, and Deacon Bill Caubet, pray before distributing Holy Communion at an Ash Wednesday Mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. | Showkat Nanda

Worshippers pray at Sacred Heart Catholic Church during an Ash Wednesday Mass. | Showkat Nanda

Gordon Martin receives ashes from the Rev. Jimmy Spear, associate minister at First Christian Church, at the 6:30 p.m. service on Ash Wednesday.

| Jessica Salmond