![]() ![]() ![]() 16 highlighted an interview with a Servite theologian, Father Ermes Ronchi. One would think that, after a year when the deaths of nearly two and a half million people worldwide had some relation to COVID-19, we might start talking about mortality. Death has a peculiar quality to focus the mind on the essentials. Pardon our sins ….” The nexus between sin and death is clear. The traditional formula for their imposition is, “Remember man, that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” The blessing of the ashes reiterates their symbolic value, “that we are dust. Catholics began Lent with a sacramental: the imposition of ashes.
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