Ash Wednesday begins the season of Lent.
Lent is a season in the Christian liturgical calendar that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends approximately six weeks later, before Easter Sunday.
It is a simple worship experience based on the biblical witness found in the opening epic of the human story: “you are dust and to dust you shall return” (Gen 3:19).
This first day of Lent reminds us that two things are involved in genuine repentance: “the dying of the old self and the coming to life of the new.” The way to Easter is the way of the cross. “Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?” (Romans 6:3).
New life with Christ involves a daily surrendering of the old life. The first step of this Lenten journey invites us to acknowledge our mortality and our sinfulness by the imposition of ashes.
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