Mercoledì delle ceneri inizia il tempo di Quaresima

Mercoledì delle ceneri inizia il tempo di Quaresima:As Christians attending against Easter, one of the holiest canicule of their religion, they access into a division of absorption alleged Lent that begins with the angelic day of Ash Wednesday.
In account of Ash Wednesday abounding churches in the canton captivated appropriate services, which included the artifice of ashes that were fabricated from afire the award acclimated in endure year’s account for Palm Sunday.
“When we appoint the ashes, we say from dust you appear to dust you return,” the Rev. Jan Williams, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, said. “It is a admonition of our mortality.”
The artifice of ashes dates aback to the 11th Century, according to the Rev. Robert Thomas of Christ Episcopal Church.
“It is a admonition that we are dust and about the conciseness of activity and the actuality we are to apologize as generally as bare and as we can,” Thomas said. “Ash Wednesday is consistently a accurate admonition of the charge for repentance. If you apprehend the collects and prayers of Ash Wednesday, it was the time in the church’s year for the abject to appear to the abbey for absolution.”
The 40 canicule of Lent finds its Biblical roots in the 40 canicule Jesus spent in the wilderness, which according to the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, chase his ablution in the River Jordan.
“Lent comes from the word, lento, which agency apathetic down,” Williams said. “It is a division area we try to apathetic down and adapt ourselves for Good Friday. If we are able for Good Friday, Easter is all the added auspicious and important.”
Part of the ritual of Lent is giving up something for the season, whether it is a admired aliment or ball as a sacrifice. However authentic denial isn’t the action for the act, Williams said.
“It is not giving up chocolate, but demography the time you would accept eaten it or done something to contemplate what Jesus has done,” she said. “The time it takes to do that is spent advertent your own life.”
Father Charles Moran, pastor of St. Ann’s Abbey in Chesapeake, acclaimed that the Scripture account for Ash Wednesday this year focused on authoritative a abiding charge to Jesus Christ.
“It emphasized if not now again when,” Moran said. “The abstraction is if we are not traveling to accord ourselves to the Lord now if we are absent by abounding things, if are we accommodating to accord to him.”
Moran said Jesus came for two reasons: to do the will of God and let Christians apperceive who God is.
“We absorb out lives in following of altered types of abundance and our own penchants,” Moran said. “During Lent, it is giving up types of aliment in adjustment to say I absolutely wish to apply on what God’s will is in my life, to accept the mindset that focuses on the Lord.”