{"id":424,"date":"2008-02-07T09:55:29","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T09:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/02\/made-the-papers.html"},"modified":"2008-02-07T09:55:29","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T09:55:29","slug":"made-the-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/02\/made-the-papers.html","title":{"rendered":"Made the papers"},"content":{"rendered":"

See? Behind the girl on the left? A little bit of grey sweater and brown hair?
\nYeah.<\/p>\n

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I knew that of the many shots the photographer shot during Mass, a version of this would make it – the little girl with the ashes peering over the pew was too good a shot – she probably took 30 pictures – during the Eucharistic Prayer, unfortunately. No flash, and no one beyond those first few pews would have noticed, though.
\nSource: local morning paper.<\/a>
\nWe’ll use this opportunity for a “What did you see and hear?” post.
\nWhat did you see and hear on Ash Wednesday? From around the world, around\u00a0Christianity – not just Catholicism.\u00a0 At school and in the office, too.<\/strong>\u00a0
\nYou can see the setting – I got Katie out of school for the noon Mass, then afterwards, we headed over to St. Mary’s for their noonday soup lunch.
\nDuring Mass, the priest re-iterated one of his favored lines: that this might be your last Lent. In fact, on Sunday, he made it even more specific, saying that odds are it would <\/em>be the last Lent for at least one person sitting there that morning.
\nMemento Mori. <\/em>
\nIt was quiet, with music (cantor and organ). Excellent skills, as usual, but frustrating hymn selection – which is something I mention only in retrospect. I don’t expect anything else, so I don’t have a problem praying with it all at the time. Which I succeeded at up until the last – that last moment when I thought I had escaped, but ’twas not to be.
\n“Please join in our closing hymn…..Ashes.”<\/em>
\nNo, we do not <\/u>“create ourselves anew.” <\/strong>
\nWell, we do actually. We try and we try to “create ourselves anew” pretty constantly. But Lent reveals to us the opposite – it’s futile and even destructive. Empty yourself and let God create you anew. He wants to. He’ll do a better job than you would. Promise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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