Details from CNA: 

A Catholic Mass was reportedly celebrated for the staff at the White House today in observance of Ash Wednesday.

An email from the White House Management Office informed staff that the Mass would take place in the Indian Treaty Room at 8:30 a.m. The Indian Treaty Room is located in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, adjacent to the White House.

“Staff who observe are welcome to attend,” the email stated.

This continues a practice begun in the first Trump term. Mick Mulvaney served as director of the Office of Management and Budget, 2017-20. He wrote last year in The Wall Street Journal: 

The story begins in February 2018, when I was director of the Office of Management and Budget. Just before Lent, I asked White House chief of staff John Kelly to relay to the president what I later learned was an unprecedented request: a Catholic Mass in the Old Executive Office Building on Ash Wednesday.

I did that in large part because Lent typically falls during crunch time for budgeteers. I knew there was at least a small group of practicing Catholics who might want to attend Mass and receive ashes that day, but who might not be able to because of work. Mr. Trump approved the request.

The result was stunning. More than 100 people showed up to the first Mass in history in the White House compound. Not all of them were from the White House. Dozens were career staffers from the nearby federal agencies who had worked under President Obama and now serve in the Biden administration.

The Mass was so successful that it continued roughly every other week until it was shut down for Covid in March 2020.

After that, evidently, the practice didn’t resume.

I was reminded of something I did years ago, when I was working as an editor for Katie Couric. One Ash Wednesday, I brought a small container of ashes to the newsroom at CBS. I sent out a group email, inviting people to an office upstairs during lunchtime if they wanted to receive ashes. About 30 people showed up — including the president of CBS News, Sean McManus.

That was almost 20 years ago. I don’t know if anything like that has happened since.