Today is Ash Wednesday, and thus the beginning of the sacred season of Lent. Today thousands in Christendom will go to their local parish and receive either a trace of ashes in the form of a cross on their forehead or spirinkles of ahes above their heads (as you will observe during the Papal Mass for Ash Wednesday). But does this mean that I'm going to church for a freebee, or is it more than that.
I think the answer is obvious.
The sacramental upon our head is a public display of our penitence to show others that we truly are sinners. But it is also a personal reminder of the same, that we are sinners and that we need God more than we really think that we do. To often we blame God for abandoning us, while the truth of the matter is that too often we put God on the backburner of our lives. Let the ashes remind us that we must be true penitents this Lenten season and give God the time he deserves from us, and probably give some time back that we owe Him through our prayer life.
Blessed Lent everyone!
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