Ash Wednesday

It is the beginning of lent. Ashes from blessed palms are mixed with Holy water and a cross is marked on the persons forehead. "Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust" this is where the body came from and this is where it will return. The Soul (essence of a person) leaves the body and becomes united with God through our death to this world.

Apart from a small group of Anglicans that represent the Catholic wing of the Anglican denomination - usually called 'AngloCatholics' - Anglicans do not celebrate the 'mass', but instead call the same service Holy Communion, The Lord's Supper or the Eucharist, depending upon the individual local church's tradition. Also, apart from the group named above, most Anglicans reject the doctrine of transubstantiation, as it is in conflict with scripture, and is warned against in the 39 Articles of Faith of the Anglican Church as leading to superstition surrounding the consecrated bread and wine. Anglicans, then, mostly regard the Communion as a memorial of Jesus' death and resurrection, regard the bread and wine as symbols of his body and blood, and reject the Catholic doctrine of resacrifice and the real bodily presence of Christ at the service in favour of his spiritual presence. That all said, most Anglicans celebrate Holy Communion weekly or, at least, have the opportunity of celebrating weekly, although in some churches there are mid-week services of Holy Communion as well.

1. Many eucalyptus trees were destroyed during the fires.

2. In Victoria that worst affected areas were the Dandenong Ranges east of Melbourne, the Macedon area northwest of Melbourne and the Mt Lofty Ranges east of Adelaide.

3. Victoria and south-eastern South Australia were affected by the fires

4. The estimated cost of damage was around $324 million dollars.

This year it starts on March 9 at midnight of the previous night)

Ash Wednesday falls 46 days before Easter. It actually works out to 40 days if one does not count the Sundays. The season in between is known as the season of Lent.

Ash Wednesday 1952 was on Wednesday, February 27.

The first day of Lent; -- so called from a custom in the Roman Catholic church of putting ashes, on that day, upon the foreheads of penitents.

The Eucharist is not directly linked to Ash Wednesday. The institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper is celebrated on Holy Thursday (the Thursday before Easter Sunday). Holy Thursday is toward the end of the season of Lent, and Ash Wednesday is the first day of that season.

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.