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EPISODE · Mar 5, 2025 · 2 MIN

Ashes, mortality and the beginning of Lent

from The Up Devotional · host Matthew Ruttan

Today is Ash Wednesday. It marks the beginning of Lent—a forty day period (excluding Sundays) leading up to the ground zero of the Christian faith: the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ.  Some churches and traditions have a custom of putting ashes on people’s foreheads on this day. Why? One of the reasons is that ashes […]

Today is Ash Wednesday. It marks the beginning of Lent—a forty day period (excluding Sundays) leading up to the ground zero of the Christian faith: the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ.  Some churches and traditions have a custom of putting ashes on people’s foreheads on this day. Why? One of the reasons is that ashes […]

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