Cover of ash to symbolize penance and repentance is a living tradition many religions. In the Catholic Church, a cross drawn on the forehead with ashes reminds us that our true home is heaven.
March 8, 2011
This day falls on different dates every year, according to the moving date of Easter. Can occur between 4 February and 10 March.
May Lent lasts 40 days is a practice that was set in the fourth century. Following tradition, in the sixth and seventh centuries gained great importance as a Lenten practice fasting.
But it is not usual practice to fast on Sunday, "because it is the Lord's Day came forward as the beginning of Lent Wednesday.
The imposition of ashes, the priest draws a cross on the foreheads of the faithful, while repeating the words "Repent and believe in the Gospel" or "You are dust and to dust you will return" to remind us that our final resting place is heaven .
The use of ashes to symbolize penance is old: the Jews, for example, used to be covered with ash when they made some sacrifices, like the people of Nineveh.
Also in the first centuries of the Church, people who wanted to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation on Holy Thursday, they put ashes on their heads and presented to the community dressed in a "habit penitential. This represented his desire to become.
In the Catholic Church this tradition has lasted since the ninth century and there to remind us that at the end of our lives, we just take what we have done for God and others men.
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