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What Is Ash Wednesday?
What is Ash Wednesday? It is the beginning of the Catholic Lent season that represents the that Our Lord Jesus Christ spent in the desert preparing Himself for His public life. Just as He spent time getting ready for his vocation, many Catholic religious make a retreat before they are ordained or take the habit as a way to prepare for their own vocations. The rest of us spend the 40 days of Lent preparing our own souls to be worthy of the great sacrifice Jesus made for us on the Cross on Good Friday. Forty days before Easter Sunday, Catholics remember the meaning of Ash Wednesday by reading the Epistle and the Gospel for the day from the Catholic Bible that tells the story of Adam's Fall and Original Sin and God's word to "Remember man that thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return." (Genesis Chapter 1) Good Friday is the day of our promised Redemption after the Fall. Easter is the Resurrection.
Before the Ash Wednesday Mass the priest blesses the burnt palms from the previous year's blessed palms of Palm Sunday and the congregation comes to the communion rail to receive the ashes made made on their foreheads in the form of the Cross. St. John the Baptist insisted that we do penance to prepare the way of the Lord, Lent is the most serious time of the year to do it. What is lent? The date for Ash Wednesday changes every year because the date for Easter is variable. Most of us need a Catholic Liturgical Calendar to keep up with the variable dates, especially now that Pope Benedict XVI has allowed the 1962 Missal with its very different Catholic calendar from the one that most Catholics use today. Many Catholics spend Lent fasting and increasing their prayers during Lent. Aquinas and More Catholic books and gifts carries the Catholic Calendar that Tan Books sells that includes BOTH the old and the new dates. Aquinas and More also sells the Local Ordo which gives the local practices and Holy Days of Obligation for many dioceses. They also sell many books to help you prepare for a great Catholic Ash Wednesday and Lent! What special traditions do you keep for Ash Wednesday and Lent?
Share your Ash Wednesday And Lent Traditions Here!What is a Catholic Lent without preparation? A Catholic Ash Wednesday and Lent call us to offer something for the love of Jesus during the 40 days of Lent. Which are your favorite preparations for the Lent season? Prayers for Lent, Lent fasting, prayers for Lent, special Lent recipes? Fasting for Lent and not eating meat during Lent on Fridays can make the food for Lent an interesting menu! Ash Wednesday and Lent Traditions From Other Visitors:Click on the links below to see the Catholic Lent traditions from other visitors so as to make the Lent season more fruitful for your own Lent.
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