ash Wednesday
Post-carnival holy day
Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent in the Christian calendar, falling forty-six days before Easter.
On this day, many Christians attend church services where a priest marks their foreheads with ashes in the shape of a cross—a symbol of mortality and repentance.
The ashes traditionally come from burning the previous year's Palm Sunday palms.
I always forget it's Ash Wednesday until I see people with ash on their foreheads.
- LentChristian fasting season
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
- foreheadFace above eyebrows
- sign of the crossChristian devotional gesture
- repentanceRemorseful rejection of past wrongs
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