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\nR<\/span>emember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”<\/p>\n

And with those words, our Lent has begun. <\/p>\n

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. A pilgrimage of penitence.<\/p>\n

Let us walk together in the Lord.<\/p>\n

This morning we had two Masses for Ash Wednesday at my parish of Holy Rosary<\/a>, the first at 7:15 am, and the second at 9:00 am for the schoolchildren.<\/p>\n

Both Masses were crowded – the first was certainly larger than our typical Saturday Vigil Mass. For the 7:15 we had our full choir (and then some!), and a passel of altar servers. It was a beautiful Mass, and the perfect way to begin our Lenten pilgrimage to the Cross.<\/p>\n

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Holy Rosary Altar Server before Mass, Ash Wednesday 2018<\/p><\/div>\n

A Little Chant for the Day<\/h4>\n

Today’s Introit, in both Latin and English. Enjoy!<\/p>\n