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DESCRIPTION:Ash Wednesday Services are at 7am\, 12 noon\, and 6:00pm. \nLe
 nt is the season when the Church prepares for Easter.  During Lent the Ch
 urch invites her members to participate in prayer\, penance and active wor
 ks of mercy.  Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent\, and it is observed
  with a special penitential order.  Ash Wednesday derives its name from t
 he practice of blessing ashes made from palm branches blessed on the previ
 ous year’s Palm Sunday and placing them on the heads of participants to 
 the accompaniment of the words “Remember that you are dust\, and to dust
  you shall return”. Ash Wednesday occurs 46 days (40 fasting days\, if t
 he 6 Sundays\, which are not days of fast\, are excluded) before Easter an
 d can fall as early as 4 February or as late as 10 March.   Jesus Christ 
 spent 40 days fasting in the desert\, where he endured temptation by Satan
 . Lent may have originated as a mirroring of this\, fasting 40 days as pre
 paration for Easter. Every Sunday (including each Sunday in Lent) is obser
 ved as a Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ\, commemorating his resurrection\,
  and thus every Sunday is considered a feast day on which fasting is inapp
 ropriate.  Christians are called by the Church to observe the ordinary we
 ekdays of Lent by special acts of discipline and self-denial in commemorat
 ion of the crucifixion of the Lord.  In addition\, the ordinary Fridays o
 f Lent are traditionally days of abstinence from flesh meats.  Ash Wednes
 day and Good Friday are traditionally days of strict fasting and abstinenc
 e.  
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