Ash Wednesday: “You are dust and unto dust you shall return”
Today the Church begins the Holy Season of Lent by which she “unites herself each year to the mystery of Jesus in the desert.” – Catechism of the Catholic Church, 540 “The seasons and days of penance in the course of the liturgical year (Lent, and each Friday in memory of the death of the Lord) are intense moments of the Church’s penitential practice. These times are particularly appropriate for spiritual exercises,…
