![]() ![]() “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes." (Mt 11, 21). Jesus himself, deploring the impenitence of the cities of Chorazin and Bethsaida, said that they deserved the same purpose as Tyre and Sidon. Just as the evening incense was being offered in the temple of God in Jerusalem, Judith cried loudly to the Lord: (Jud 9: 1). Judith, before undertaking the arduous task of freeing Bethulia, "fell prostrate, put ashes upon her head, and uncovered the sackcloth she was wearing. ![]() Ash Wednesday is closely linked with the idea of penance, already expressed among the Hebrews by covering one’s head with ashes and dressing in rough sackcloth. Lent represents, in the liturgical year, the preparation for celebrating the mystery of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Christ. It begins with the austere rite of the imposition of ashes, and thus opens Lent. Ash Wednesday, in the liturgical tradition of the Church, is called the "beginning of Wednesday fasting" (in capite ieiunii). ![]()
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