Today we enter into the season of Lent starting with this observance of Ash Wednesday. We fast and pray in order that we who have been touched by sin may come to be set free from such a burden through Christ. These ashes that we will soon dare to receive remind us that we are sinners who are in need of the mercy of God. As our Gospel instructed, “Take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them.” This means that we must look inwardly upon self and dare to bring forth that conversion which is necessary if we are to be redeemed. May this Lenten season be fruitful for us by entering into it with such a disposition of mind in order that we may truly come to “repent and believe in the Gospel” “for we are dust and to dust we shall return.”
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