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This year, Ash Wednesday is on Feb. 14, coinciding with Valentine's Day. This marks the beginning of Lent , a 40-day period of fasting and prayer in preparation for Easter, which is on March 31 ...
Ash Wednesday Spanish language mass. Immaculate heart of Mary Cathedral Parish. Location: 1240 S. Espina in Las Cruces. Spanish Mass 7:30 p.m. Holy Cross Catholic Church
Feb. 7—On Ash Wednesday, February 14, Connection Christian Church will join its ecumenical partners in Odessa for "Ashes to Go," a fresh approach to a centuries-old Christian tradition.
The chancel of a church on Ash Wednesday 2015 (the veiled altar cross and purple paraments are customary during Lent). Ash Wednesday marks the start of a 40-day period which is an allusion to the separation of Jesus in the desert to fast and pray. During this time he was tempted. Matthew 4:1–11, Mark 1:12–13, and Luke 4:1–13. [148]
Since the forty days of Lent do not include Sundays, the first day of Lent, Ash Wednesday, succeeds Quinquagesima Sunday by only three days. The name Estomihi is derived from the incipit or opening words of the Introit for the Sunday, Esto mihi in Deum protectorem, et in locum refugii, ut salvum me facias , ("Be Thou unto me a God, a Protector ...
The ashes used for Ash Wednesday are the burnt remains of the palm branches used the previous year on Palm Sunday. Each year, these branches are burned down into a fine powder, often mixed with ...
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In Christianity, on Ash Wednesday, ashes of burnt palm leaves and fronds left over from Palm Sunday, mixed with olive oil, are applied in a cross-form on the forehead of the believer as a reminder of his inevitable physical death, with the intonation: "Dust thou art, and to dust will return" from Genesis 3:19 in the Old Testament.