Ash Wednesday is a penitent service that uses the ash to mark the sign of the cross on the believer’s forehead, symbolizing our sinful nature and needs for salvation. The Catholic church usually uses the ashes of Palm Sunday branches from the previous year’s Palm Sunday service. Future As...
Ash Wednesday marks the first day of Lent.In the Catholic observation of Ash Wednesday, a priest applies a smudge of ash on people's foreheads in the shape of a cross. As it is applied, the phrase "remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return" is often spoken. The ash...
In the Roman Catholic Church, Ash Wednesday is a day of fasting. In the sixth century, Christians who had committed grave faults were obliged to do public penance. On Ash Wednesday, they donned a hair shirt (which they wore for 40 days), and the local bishop blessed them and sprinkled t...
Lent means the 40 weekdays (excluding Sundays) from Ash Wednesday to Easter that is observed by Roman Catholic, Eastern, and some Protestant churches as a period of reflection, repentance, and fasting. Between Ash Wednesday and Easter, many Christians observe a 40-day period known as Lent. ...
We Christians today are on a spiritual journey as well, toward the Second Coming of Christ and our future life in Heaven. In order to emphasize the penitential nature of that journey, the Catholic Church, during Lent, removesthe Alleluiafrom the Mass....
of cooking some of it this weekend. I am want to come up with an exercise plan even if it is only 15 minutes a day for a while. I think it is going to take me a little time to get back into the swing of things. I need to get my husband motivated to do the same thing. ...
Ashes, Too:Last year, on Ash Wednesday — the day Catholic priests daub the foreheads of their flock with ashes to mark the beginning of Lent — awareness of the coronavirus pandemic was just starting to spread. Today, some parishes are preparing congregants ...
II. GIVE ME ONLY MY DAILY BREAD Besides keeping him far away from fraud and lying, Agur asks the LORD for a second thing, in Proverbs 30:8 –“Give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, ‘Who is ...
In the Roman Catholic Church people would abstain from just meat and poultry on Ash Wednesday and every Friday during Lent. Dairy, eggs and fish would still be eaten. In 1966 Pope Paul VI suggested that instead of a total fast, fasting could be replaced by prayer and works of charity, ...
Oh… But what’s Carnival? And Lent? Ash Wednesday? Oooofff….other posts… ***Çarşambais a hyper-religious — yes, I’ll just call it fundamentalist — mahalla, up the hill from theFanari, the once entirely Greek neighborhood on the northern shore of the Old City where the Patri...