Ash Wednesday (this year on Feb 10) begins Lent, a season of fasting and prayer.
Ash Wednesday comes from the ancient Jewish tradition of penance and fasting.
The practice includes the wearing of ashes on the head.
The ashes symbolize the dust from which God made us.
Ashes also symbolize grief, in this case, grief that we have sinned and caused division from God
Other writings refer to the wearing of ashes as a sign of penance.
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