The 40-day season is marked by prayer, fasting, and abstinence as preparations for the great feast of Easter, the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Filipinos mark Ash Wednesday with prayers for pandemic to endĪsh Wednesday marks the start of the Lent, one of the most solemn periods in the Catholic Church and for other Christian denominations as it remembers the passion and death of Jesus Christ.CBCP's exec suggests sprinkling of dry ashes instead of marking foreheads amid COVID-19 outbreak.Jerome Secillano, executive secretary of the CBCP Public Affairs Committee, said that while sprinkling of dry ashes on the crown or top of the head, which was adopted in 20 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, will remain an option, the traditional imposition of wet ashes with the sign of the cross on the forehead is already allowed this year. MANILA (UDPATE) - The Catholic church will revert to the imposition of ashes on the forehead of the faithful this Ash Wednesday, March 2, an official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said Monday.įr.
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