You ask... What is Ash Wednesday... ???
Well, it's a very important day in the Christian Faith.
We Christians feel that we are to return to dust...
Is Ash Wednesday Biblical? Yes, very much so!
What is Ash Wednesday?
"Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent. Lent is the forty days (excluding Sundays) leading up to Easter. The number forty is significant as it refers to Jesus’ forty days in the desert prior to beginning his ministry of teaching." "On Ash Wednesday, Christians receive ashes in the shape of a cross on their forehead or sprinkled on top of their head. These ashes are created from the palms used during the previous year’s Palm Sunday Mass." "They symbolize penance, which is appropriate as Lent is a season of penance, and remind us of our own mortality. During the Mass, as the priest applies the ashes, he says “Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return.”
Site Reference: Daily Inspiration YouTube Channel and The Guardian Nigeria News
Many blessing to you during this season of Lent, Paige St. James
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