Ecuadorians are getting ready to live a new holiday from this Saturday, it is the carnival. This celebration takes place in several countries around the world that also take a holiday.
This year, the carnival days are Monday 20 and Tuesday 21 February. After this date, Catholics remember one of the most important liturgical times. It is about Lent, whose beginning is Ash Wednesday.
On February 22, the churches will welcome the faithful to whom ash will be placed on their foreheads. This is a celebration contained in the Roman Missal. He explains that at Mass the ashes made from the palms blessed on Palm Sunday of the previous year are blessed and imposed on the foreheads of the faithful. These are precisely what the ash to impose is satisfied with.
What day in February is Ash Wednesday celebrated this 2023
Ash is a symbol of humility and reminds the Christian of his origin and his end: “God formed man with dust from the ground” (Gn 2,7); “until you return to the earth, for you were made of it” (Gn 3,19), according to the passages reported in Genesis.
Lent acquired a penitential meaning for all Christians almost 400 years AD and from the 11th century, the Church in Rome imposes the ashes at the beginning of this time.
This is a time when conversion and reflection are called for, when the 40 days that Jesus passed through the desert are remembered, which will culminate on Holy Thursday, when the Church lives its Greater Week. It is common for several people to practice fasting and abstinence from meat on Fridays, this being an old Christian practice. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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