Tag: ash wednesday
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Lenten Season 2013
“Remember, Man is dust, and unto dust you shall return.” The Roman Catholic tradition dictates that Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of this 40-day liturgical period of prayer and fasting. Today, we Catholic Christians celebrate Ash Wednesday where we go to hear mass and let the priest or the lay ministers mark our foreheads with…
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Lenten Season 2012
The Ash Wednesday marks the start of the Lenten Season. Roman Catholics go to mass today as this is a day of obligation. This also means that this is the first day of 40 days of fasting or giving up certain types of luxury as a form of repentance. It is the season dedicated in…
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FAST…FEED 2011: HAPAG-ASA
“Is it not the fast that I choose: to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; give clothes to those who have nothing to wear?… When you pray, He will answer you. When you call the Lord, He will respond” – Isaiah 58:6-7,9 Yesterday was Ash Wednesday that…
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Lenten Season 2011: What’s your sacrifice?
Lent is a Catholic tradition which is very much practiced here in the Philippines. It is a period of the Liturgical Year leading up to Easter. The traditional purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer — through prayer, penitence, almsgiving and self-denial. And Holy Week marks the Death and Resurrection of the Lord,…