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Reflection for Ash Wednesday – Lent 2013

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

My brothers and sisters in Christ, today we enter a new liturgical Season. Together, we have gathered here on this evening to celebrate “Ash Wednesday,” the first of forty days of the Lenten Season that precedes Easter. At the beginning of Lent, on Ash Wednesday, ashes are blessed during Holy Mass, after the homily. The [...]

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Lenten Services in East Meadow

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Ash Wednesday ‑ Mass and Blessing and Distribution of ashes will be held on Wednesday, March 9th at 7 p.m.. Stations of the Cross ‑ will be held each Sunday following Mass, during the season of Lent. Come join us, as we follow in prayer and devotion, the suffering, death, and burial of Our Lord, [...]

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Lent at St. Francis Parish

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Ash Wednesday, February 17 – Holy Mass and distribution of ashes at 7pm Ash Wednesday is the first day of the penitential season of Lent, in which ashes are placed on the head or forehead of the faithful. Ash Wednesday is unknown in the Eastern Church, and developed only in the West. Orthodox Churches begin [...]

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Reflection for Ash Wednesday -2009

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Jest drabina do nieba, Przy drabinie stoi krzyż Here is the ladder to heaven And beside the ladder stands the cross These words are translated from a very old Polish Lenten hymn. Jesus came to call us to heaven. This is a wonderful invitation but the party is not free. There is work to be [...]

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