Friends at Court
GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK’S CALENDAR ■ ■■■■■■ 4 March 2, Sunday. —Quinquagesima Sunday. , „ 3, Monday. —Of the Ferfa. ~ 4, Tuesday.—St. Casimir, Confessor. ~, 5, Wednesday.—Ash Wednesday. „ 6, Thursday.—S.S. Perpetua and Felicitas, Martyrs. „ 7, Friday. — St. Thomas Aquinas, Confessor and Doctor. ~ 8, Saturday. — St. John of God, Confessor. Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday, the Wednesday after Quinquagesima Sunday, is the first day of the Lenten fast. The name dies cinerum (day of ashes) which it bears in the Roman Missal, is found in the earliest existing copies of the Gregorian Sacramentary, and probably dates from at least the eighth century. On this day all the faithful according to ancient custom are exhorted to approach the altar before the beginning of Mass, and there the priest, dipping his thumb into ashes previously blessed, marks upon the forehead of each the Sign of the Cross, saying the words: “Remember, man, that thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return.’’ The ashes used in this ceremony are made by burning the remains of the palms blessed on Palm Sunday of the previous year. In the blessing of the ashes four prayers are used, all of them ancient, and the ashes are sprinkled- with holy water and fumigated with incense. The celebrant himself, be he bishop or (cardinal, receives either standing or seated, the ashes from some other priest, usually the highest in dignity of those present. In earlier ages a penitential procession often followed the rite of the distribution of the ashes, but this is not now prescribed.
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New Zealand Tablet, 27 February 1919, Page 3
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