Today marks the beginning of Lent as Christians celebrate Ash Wednesday, which is considered the start of forty days of preparation prior to Easter. The ashes comes from burned palms from the previous year’s Palm Sunday which are used to mark a cross on the foreheads of the faithful while the priest utters “Repent and believe in the Gospel”.
In observance of the season, those who are 16 years old and above begins to practice abstinence or avoidance to eat meat. Aside from abstinence, Catholics can perform personal sacrifices by fasting, doing charitable works, do acts of repentance and spiritual discipline.
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