{"id":107640,"date":"2023-02-22T08:12:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T16:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=107640"},"modified":"2023-02-22T08:12:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T16:12:12","slug":"ash-wednesday-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/ash-wednesday-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Ash Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">R<\/span>emember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And with those words, our Lent has begun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Holy Mother Church calls us to make these next forty days until Easter a time of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Lent is a pilgrimage, in a sense, through time if not space, through death to resurrection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A pilgrimage of penitence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let us walk together in the Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Little Chant for the Day<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s Introit, in both Latin and English. 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