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Friends of the Rosary,

Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, the 40-day season that calls us to repentance and prayer while we look forward to the joy of Easter and the celebration of Christ’s resurrection.

During Mass, we receive a mark of ashes on our forehead. This optional imposition of ashes is a physical symbol of our repentance and death—death to our selfish nature.

Ashes remind us of the dust from which Adam was created. It also reminds us of our mortality and our accountability to God.

As we come for the solemn observance of the great central act of history, the redemption of the human race by our Jesus Christ, we open our hearts to be transformed by the love of Christ and commit to growing closer to the Author of Life.

Catholics follow abstinence from eating meat on Ash Wednesday and all Fridays during Lent, as well as fasting on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.

A person is permitted to eat one full meal or two smaller meals.

Today, we reflect on these words of St. Paul: “I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” Galatians 2:20.

Ave Maria!
Jesus, I Trust In You!

Come, Holy Spirit, come!
To Jesus through Mary!

+ Mikel Amigot | RosaryNetwork.com, New York

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