Let Your Ashes Be a Reminder to You

Let Your Ashes Be a Reminder to You

Today, we bear ashes on our foreheads, given with the whisper, “You are dust, and to dust you shall return.” On Ash Wednesday, the message of ashes is more pertinent than ever. Ashes are more than an Ash-Wednesday sign of our Christianity and our belief in...
Ashes, a Reflection by Sister Debbie Blow

Ashes, a Reflection by Sister Debbie Blow

Flickr: Fr Lawrence Lew, O.P. Our palms from last Sunday are now behind us, a foreshadowing of the whisper we will hear once again next year, “You are dust, and to dust you shall return.” However, during Holy Week, the message of ashes is more pertinent...