ASH-WEDNESDAY.
CHURCH SERVICES IN WELLINGTON. Yesterday being Ash-Wednesday, the first day of Lent, special services were held in the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches of the city and suburbs. Iho name Ash-Wednesday 'is derived from an ancient custom of sprinkling ashes on the heads of penitents. The origin of this ceremony is generally attributed to Gregory tho Great. According to the present rite in the Roman Catholic Church, the ashes are consecrated on tho altar, sprinkled with holy water, signed with tho cross, and then strewn on the foreheads of the clergy and people, the priest repeating, "Memento homo nuia pulvis cs, et in pulverem revcrteris" (Remember, man, thou nrt but dust, and unto dust thou shalt return). Lent is the annual fast of forty days, beginning with Ash-Wednesday and continuing till Easter, observed from very early times iti tho Christian Church, in commemoration of Christ's forty days' fast, and as a season of specinl self-denial in preparation for tho Easier feast.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1370, 22 February 1912, Page 4
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162ASH-WEDNESDAY. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1370, 22 February 1912, Page 4
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