Why? Because on that day Mel Gibson released what was to become his epic blockbuster, The Passion of the Christ. For the first time in history, the phrase “Ash Wednesday” was on the lips of millions of evangelical Christians, not just Catholics and other “high church” Protestants, as ...
You may have seen Christians, mostly Catholics, walking around with a smear of ash on their foreheads and wondered what it meant. The practice of Ash Wednesday is symbolic within the Christian church to recognize our frailty as humans. It also marks the beginning of the Lent season.This year...
From gossip and complaining to junk food and coffee, these are the best things to give up for Lent, which begins this year on Wednesday, February 14.
Four decades ago, less than 5 percent of American were cremated when they died. Now that figure stands at nearly half. This is how cremation actually works, and what happens to a culture when its attitude about how to memorialize the dead undergoes a rev
(and no meat, eggs, or butter), people nowfastto varying degrees. Roman Catholics, for example, abstain from meat on the first day ofLent(Ash Wednesday), the Friday before Easter (Good Friday), and every Friday during the seven weeks ofLent. People in other sects of modern Christianity ...
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While the practice is not as popular in the Bible Belt and among certain cultural groups, including Catholics, Jews, and African-Americans, in places like California, Oregon, and southern Florida, 60 to 80 percent of the dead are now cremated. And there’s one more force pushing cremation...
There is no easy way to say it: The physical attributes you picture when you envision a loved one—the eyes, the skin, the hair—disappear during the cremation process. “Cremated remains are typically bone fragments and casket ash,” Koslovski says. “Remember, we’re 60 percent water.”...