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here really comes a time when we find paint, make-up, or markings on our faces that we use to represent ourselves or send a message. Most of these aesthetic materials are extravagant, expensive, flamboyant. But ashes - well, that ’s another thing. Plain, simple, neutral, bland: but with a powerful message. Ash has been used to represent repentance and physical death and separation from wordly desires;
March 5, 2014 Mass schedules 7:00am 6:00pm Parish of the immaculate heart of mary Hinulugan Taktak Rd., Fairmount Hills Subd., Antipolo city tel.no. 696-4387 A project of the P I H M e va n g e l i z at i o n & w o r s h i p mi n i s t r y i n co o p e r at i o n w i t h t h e P I H M m e d ia mi n i s t r y
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and during Ash Wednesday, Catholics begin Lent with crosses of ash and holy water on their foreheads. Symbolizing death, it is how we proclaim the deepest understanding that God has given us life from dust, and to dust we shall return to Him, and in the death of the physical, we are reborn into a higher sense. Finally, we can display something worthwhile, and we can proudly say we are ready to begin again. Ash Wednesday. It ’s a start.