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Ash Wednesday
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Ash Wednesday

First day of Lent, the period of fasting in the Christian calendar leading up to Easter. Christians used to cover their heads with ashes to show repentance, a custom continued today by some Christians, including Roman Catholics, who mark their foreheads with a cross in ash, as a sign of penitence (sorrow for sins).

Traditionally, the ashes are made from the palm leaves of the previous year's Palm Sunday service (commemorating Jesus' entry into Jerusalem).



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But even more than this, he notes how fragmented and fragile we are, which is symbolized and ritualized by the imposition of ashes on our foreheads.
Walking toward possibility by Berry, Malinda Elizabeth / Sojourners
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25) with the evocative rite of the imposition of ashes and the words: "Dust you are and unto dust you shall return" (Gen.
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