Ash Wednesday

Purple.

It commemorates the beginning of the 40 days of Lent. The number 40 was chosen, to commemorate Jesus' 40 days of fasting at the beginning of his public ministry. And the imposition of ashes on the forehead commemorates the dust: from dust we are born, and to dust we return.

Ash Wednesday marks the first day of lent. Lent is the forty days leading up to Easter. Many people give something up, this could be an object e.g. chocolate, your time or an effort to help someone.

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Ash Wednesday is the start of Lent and during Lent, the church uses purple

Catholics do not 'celebrate' Ash Wednesday, they observe it. Most will assist at Mass and receive ashes on their forehead in remembrance of their own mortality and the need to repent. All over age 14 must abstain from meat on this day and those from 18 until age 60 must also fast.

as the start of lent it doesn't matter what you wear. what matters is that your soul is open.

In 1967, Ash Wednesday, the date 46 days before Easter, fell on February 8.

Lent is a preparatory season which Catholics use to prepare their souls for the solemnity of our Lord's Passion, suffering and death and His Glorious resurrection at Easter. It is the most important celebration of the liturgical year as it defines the very meaning of the central teaching of Christianity: that Christ died on a cross to save us from our sins and to lead us into Eternal Life with God. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of this season.

Ash is the residue left behind after something is burned. It consists of the inorganic minerals and salts that were present in the original material and usually appears as a fine gray or black powder. Ash can come from various sources such as wood, coal, or even volcanic eruptions.

It is very important because man is come from dust and he will return again to dust when they died.

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i think it took about 2 days to put ash wednesday out

We all fall down.

They use them the next year.

the abbreviation of Wednesday is WED.

The ashes used for Ash Wednesday are from the palms given out on Palm Sunday of the previous year. There are various statements used when the ashes are applied such as, "remember man that you are dust and unto dust you shall return."

genesis 18:27

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:

Yes, they both do.

Lent is a period of penance and atonement done in memory of Our Lord's forty day fast in the desert (See Matthew 4:2-"And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards He was hungry...")

Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, the "kick-off" if you will. On this day Catholics have their foreheads marked with ashes in memory of God's creating Adam out of dust (See Genesis 3:19-"for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return").

Easter Sunday is the day where Christians celebrate Christ's Resurrection from the dead, and it is also the end of Lent.

There was a Royal Commission of Inquiry following the Ash Wednesday bushfires which covered many aspects of the fires, including the combatting authorities, granting of "permits to build " to prospective home owners by the various municipalities, the effects of the drought and a range of other topics. One of the major discoveries of the Commission was that those people who stayed with their homes, not only survived the fires, but saved their homes as well. This philosophy became a major feature of all subsequent bushfire preparedness and survival advertising and literature, along with having a well prepared house and a disaster survival plan. One recommendation from the Commission fell to the local Fire Brigades and Municipalities to implement being, to give the "local" area a "Fire Danger Rating" based on a point system covering 25 topics. The higher the points, the higher the danger. The idea being that local councils look at "permits to build" outside the metropolitan area and assess them against the local "Fire Danger Rating". Homes to be built in High Fire Risk areas would need to have good access and egress from the property, trees cleared from around houses, overhanging trees cleared away from roads and include private fire fighting equipment such as substantial water tanks fitted with fire brigade compatible connections, diesel pumps, suitable firefighting hoses and external sprinkler systems and a host of other mandatory requirements before a permit to build was granted. This was the one Ash Wednesday recommendation that seems to have failed to be enforced very seriously. Viewing news footage from the Black Saturday fires reveals this failure very obviously. Other recommendations were that all new fire fighting vehicles were to have diesel engines and be fitted with protective heat shielding for the crew. Existing petrol engine vehicles were fitted with "anti-fuel vapourisation" kits and protective heat shielding. All of the combatting authorities were to be mutually supporting and cooperative and have closer communications and familiarity with each other. These were some of the new ideas that were to be implemented on top of what many people considered to be the existing draconian rules and regulations.