Just like that, here we are - Lenten season has started with Ash Wednesday on February 17.
Lent is the traditional commemoration of the 40 days Jesus spent fasting in the desert, according to the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, before beginning his public ministry.
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| Ash Wednesday |
On Wednesday clergy around the world draw a cross-shaped smudge of dark ash on the foreheads of millions of people. It is the ancient rite of The Imposition of Ashes which signals the start of Lent.
