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3 days ago · Ashes have more than one meaning. The word “ashes” represents the product of the combustion of something by fire. This takes on a symbolic connotation of death, the fleeting quality of temporal things, but also of humility and penitence.
3 days ago · The ashes signify the need for repentance of sins and is a call to humility before God. Over the years, ChurchPOP has shared a now-viral infographic entitled, “A Catholic Guide to Ashes,” which hilariously describes various ways in which Ash Wednesday ashes appear on foreheads after Catholics receive them.
3 days ago · Catholics receive ashes on their foreheads with the words: “Remember, you are dust and to dust you shall return.” (Gen. 3:19) Or, “Turn away from sin and be faithful to the Gospel.” The ashes symbolize our mortality and ongoing need for repentance and redemption through Christ’s Passion–an outward sign of interior penance.
5 days ago · If you are in a season of sadness, please know that I am aching alongside you. I hope her words can be a flicker of hope for your heart as well. Here are a few Mary Oliver poems to soothe our souls in any season of suffering.
1 day ago · Aleister Crowley, on his name change. Crowley had his first significant mystical experience while on holiday in Stockholm in December 1896. Several biographers, including Lawrence Sutin, Richard Kaczynski, and Tobias Churton, believed that this was the result of Crowley's first same-sex sexual experience, which enabled him to recognize his bisexuality. At Cambridge, Crowley maintained a ...
3 days ago · Ashes to ashes: Why Shaun Micallef doesn't look back Ahead of the premiere of his new ABC TV talk show Eve of Destruction , Shaun Micallef discusses his preference for living in the moment and why he’d let all evidence of his 40-year career be wiped from existence.
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2 days ago · His ashes in a peaceful urn[11] shall rest; His name a great example stands, to show How strangely high endeavours may be blest, Where piety and valour jointly go. John Dryden Rate:
