Ash Wednesday

When Levin had changed his first hundred-rouble note to pay for liveries for his footmen and hall-porter he could not help reflecting that these liveries were of no use to anyone--but they were indubitably necessary, to judge by the amazement of the princess and Kitty when he suggested that they might do without liveries,--that these liveries would cost the wages of two laborers for the summer, that is, would pay for about three hundred working days from Easter to Ash Wednesday, and each a day of hard work from early morning to late evening--and that hundred-rouble note did stick in his throat.

That's my thinking; and I've been clerk o' this parish forty year, and I know, when the parson and me does the cussing of a Ash Wednesday, there's no cussing o' folks as have a mind to be cured without a doctor, let Kimble say what he will.

In the Philippines, fasting and abstinence remain obligatory for Roman Catholics on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.

I took the easy way out of Ash Wednesday obligation last week by attending midday Mass at Landmark Makati, only to discover that everyone else had the same idea.

"Remember that you are dust and to dust, you shall return!" This is a dictum that the priest says during the Mass on Ash Wednesday. This saying originally came from Genesis 3:19 in the Old Testament when God reminded Adam and Eve of their inevitable destiny.

He said Ash Wednesday is one of the most important and significant holy days in the churches calendar as it opens lent, a season of fasting and prayer which lasts 40 days.

A teacher from Bountiful, Utah, who forced a Catholic student to wash the Ash Wednesday cross from his forehead, was placed on administrative leave for the same.

Four chaplains spent parts of Ash Wednesday administering ashes at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield.

figure By Fr LAWRENCE NJOROGE Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the 40-day Lenten season, during which Christians seek a deeper union with the divine by doing good and avoiding evil.

As Catholics observe Ash Wednesday today, March 6, Church leaders reminded the faithful to repent and be sorry for their sins saying and appealed to candidates in the May 13 midterm polls not to use the Ash Wednesday observance to advance their interest.

Pancake Day is always the day before Ash Wednesday, which is the day Lent starts.

Election lawyer Romy Macalintal and his wife Mila had their photos in a Valentine booth inside a mall as a memento of the rare coincidence of Ash Wednesday falling on Valentine's Day last February 14.