Lent-A time for reflection and prayer:
By KARAN MINNIS,Guardian Lifestyles Reporter,
Nassau, Bahamas:
We should all remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return," says Father David Cooper, priest at St. Michael's Catholic Church, West End, Grand Bahama, as Catholics began the start of their Lenten season yesterday on Ash Wednesday.
"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 the forehead of each the sign of the cross, saying the words: 'Remember man that thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return,'" explains Father Cooper.
The ashes used in this ceremony are made by burning the remains of the palms blessed on the Palm Sunday of the previous year. In the blessing of the ashes four prayers are used, all of them ancient. The ashes are sprinkled with holy water and fumigated with incense.
Adding that the celebra
>We are the battles by daybreakBetween the darkness and dawn,Between the sandhills and seasprayWhen the tide and the whirlwind are gone.We are yesterday's fireside dancesWe are whimsical dream-river raftersWe are a time immemorialWe are the last Ever After.Poetry by Vignesh Sridharan((( Vote for this photo at JPGMag )))post processing : Split Toningcamera : Sony DSC-P10
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