"A few years ago a new trend popped up on social media for Ash Wednesday: the Ashtag. An enthusiastic church-goer would post a selfie displaying a forehead newly minted with ashes. These posts may have been made with the fine intention of encouraging people to begin Lent by going to Mass or as a witness to the Christian life - but some came across as vain and prideful. Ash Wednesday is not about getting some sort of good mark showing that you made it to church in the middle of the week, or even to display personal piety. Rather, it is about our mortality, sinfulness, and constant need for conversion. On Ash Wednesday we are showing that we need Easter's Resurrection.
"We can see from the very nature of these ashes that they represent our mortality. . . ."In a recent commentary, Brother Anselm Kelly, O.P.,
reflected on the meaning of the ashes we receive on Ash Wednesday and on how the "season of Lent is meant for us to turn back to God with our whole heart."
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Dominicana: Rend Your Heart, and Your Hashtags (21 FEB 23)
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