Ash Wednesday

Lent is a 40 day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday. It’s a period of preparation to celebrate the Lord’s Resurrection at Easter. During Lent, we seek the Lord in prayer by reading Sacred Scripture; we serve by giving alms; and we practice self-control through fasting. We are called not only to abstain from luxuries during Lent, but to a true inner conversion of heart as we seek to follow Christ’s will more faithfully. We recall the waters of baptism in which we were also baptized into Christ’s death, died to sin and evil, and began new life in Christ.

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Prayers for Ukraine 
With the outbreak of war in Ukraine, the Diocese of Columbus urges all to join together today and every day in deep prayer for an immediate end to hostilities and a return to diplomatic dialogue that assures a real and lasting peace for all people in Ukraine, Europe, and the world.  We also will join with Pope Francis on Ash Wednesday, March 2, who has designated this a special day of prayer and fasting for peace.  In calling for this today, the Holy Father said, “I encourage believers in a special way to dedicate themselves intensely to prayer and fasting on that day.  May the Queen of Peace preserve the world from the madness of war.”
 

In calling for fervent prayer around the world, Pope Francis also noted that, “Once again the peace of all is threatened by partisan interests” and appealed for those “with political responsibility to examine their consciences seriously before God, who is the God of peace and not of war, who is the Father of all, not just of some, who wants us to be brothers and not enemies.”

Weaving a crown out of thorns, they placed it on his head, and a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” – Matthew 27:29

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