all that helps is drugs and alcohol?
have you tried the rosary fren<<3?
have you tried the rosary fren<<3?
Ashes, in the Bible, symbolise three realities: purification, repentance and the emptiness of material things.
We use them on Ash Wednesday as a mark of breaking with the past and embracing new beginnings.
They remind us that we come from dust and return to dust; but that a destiny awaits us, beyond what is earthly, to which God our Creator calls us - communion with Him forever.
For this reason, the prophets of the Old Testament described as "eating ashes" any attempt to replace God with the emptiness of material things and false gods (Isaiah 44:20 and Hosea 12).
The ashes we receive on our foreheads, on Ash Wednesday, are the outward sign of an interior yearning of the heart to receive anew, the Eternal Blessings freely bestowed and ever-available, through the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
We use them on Ash Wednesday as a mark of breaking with the past and embracing new beginnings.
They remind us that we come from dust and return to dust; but that a destiny awaits us, beyond what is earthly, to which God our Creator calls us - communion with Him forever.
For this reason, the prophets of the Old Testament described as "eating ashes" any attempt to replace God with the emptiness of material things and false gods (Isaiah 44:20 and Hosea 12).
The ashes we receive on our foreheads, on Ash Wednesday, are the outward sign of an interior yearning of the heart to receive anew, the Eternal Blessings freely bestowed and ever-available, through the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.