Comments on: Ash Wednesday 2019 – To Dust You Shall Return https://www.acatholic.org/ash-wednesday-2019-to-dust-you-shall-return/ DAILY MASS READINGS AND REFLECTIONS @ ACATHOLIC.ORG Mon, 13 Apr 2020 21:23:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Annie https://www.acatholic.org/ash-wednesday-2019-to-dust-you-shall-return/#comment-14637 Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:45:47 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=66312#comment-14637 This really hit home for me, today. My dad is nearing death, which is causing me to ponder my own. Bill and Rocky from the linked homily are great examples of living simply and according to God’s will. I will take this lenten season to get realigned and simplified. Thank you so much for sharing this.

]]> By: barry w mertz https://www.acatholic.org/ash-wednesday-2019-to-dust-you-shall-return/#comment-14636 Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:16:31 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=66312#comment-14636 Great stuff Laura it really touched home. I have been prepared in every way I know how as I have cancer, and after a horrible surgery with miserable side effects I have turned down the chemo & radiation and am thankful for every day I wake up and the Lord has decided to give me another. As a child growing up in a wonderful era of the 50’s and 60’s by the greatest generation I look forward to being reunited to a time I recognized family & faith and what it meant in this country

]]> By: Mary Jane https://www.acatholic.org/ash-wednesday-2019-to-dust-you-shall-return/#comment-14635 Wed, 06 Mar 2019 14:34:07 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=66312#comment-14635 Thank you Laura – and for sharing the homily by Father Pellegrino – beautiful.

]]> By: Laura https://www.acatholic.org/ash-wednesday-2019-to-dust-you-shall-return/#comment-14634 Wed, 06 Mar 2019 13:52:51 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=66312#comment-14634 Hello A,

There are actually two things they can say when they make the sign of the cross on your forehead. “One is ‘Remember that you are dust and to dust you will return.’ The second is, ‘Turn away from sin and be faithful to the Gospel.’

]]> By: A https://www.acatholic.org/ash-wednesday-2019-to-dust-you-shall-return/#comment-14633 Wed, 06 Mar 2019 13:18:36 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=66312#comment-14633 I can’t even remember the last time I heard anything about dust or ashes when the ash cross is put on my forehead. Regardless of which parish I attended, the person putting the cross on my forehead says “Turn away from sin and believe in the Gospel.”

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.acatholic.org/ash-wednesday-2019-to-dust-you-shall-return/#comment-14632 Wed, 06 Mar 2019 12:22:06 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=66312#comment-14632 If only we could all have the faith of Bill. May God bless him on this journey that he is embarking on.

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.acatholic.org/ash-wednesday-2019-to-dust-you-shall-return/#comment-14631 Wed, 06 Mar 2019 11:01:58 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=66312#comment-14631 A beautiful and awakening way to begin lent. Dust…thats all we are. Thank you Laura

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