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  2. What Is 'Ash Wednesday' and Why Is It Celebrated? - AOL

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    The ashes used for Ash Wednesday are the burnt remains of the palm branches used the previous year on Palm Sunday. Each year, these branches are burned down into a fine powder, often mixed with ...

  3. Ash Wednesday - Wikipedia

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    On Ash Wednesday 2017, Father Paddy Mooney, the priest of St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in the Irish town of Glenamaddy, set up an Ashes to Go station through which commuters could drive and receive ashes from their car; the parish church also had "drive-through prayers during Lent with people submitting requests into a box left in the ...

  4. When and what is Ash Wednesday? Why Christians wear ashes to ...

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    Alexandrea prays during the Ash Wednesday ceremony at the Cathedral of the Assumption in Louisville, Ky. on Feb. 22, 2023. Christians commonly celebrate Ash Wednesday with ashes on their forehead ...

  5. Ash Wednesday 2024: When and why Christians wear ashes to ...

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    February 5, 2024 at 8:23 AM. Thousands of Oklahomans will don a cross of ashes on their foreheads later this month during Ash Wednesday to observe the beginning of a season of fasting and prayer ...

  6. Ash Wednesday (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Ash Wednesday (sometimes Ash-Wednesday) is a long poem written by T. S. Eliot during his 1927 conversion to Anglicanism. Published in 1930, the poem deals with the struggle that ensues when one who has lacked faith in the past strives to move towards God. Sometimes referred to as Eliot's "conversion poem", Ash-Wednesday, with a base of Dante 's ...

  7. Memento mori - Wikipedia

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    This finds ritual expression in the rites of Ash Wednesday, when ashes are placed upon the worshipers' heads with the words, "Remember Man that you are dust and unto dust, you shall return." Memento mori has been an important part of ascetic disciplines as a means of perfecting the character by cultivating detachment and other virtues, and by ...

  8. What is Ash Wednesday and why is it important in the ... - AOL

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    Ash Wednesday falls on 14 February this year. Ash Wednesday is a significant day in the Christian calendar, as it denotes the beginning of the Christ observance of Lent, which precedes Easter ...

  9. What is Ash Wednesday? Why do Christians wear ashes and give ...

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    Sharron Atkins holds an energetic Brinley, in a drive-thru for the Imposition of Ashes on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, at Carmel United Methodist Church.