![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And he constantly urges us not to despair, even when we lie fallen in the dust of our weakness and sin, for “he knows how we were made he remembers that we are dust.” ( Psalm 103:14) Let us listen to those words again: He remembers that we are dust. God knows this yet we often forget it, and think that we are self-sufficient, strong and invincible without him. As a tender and merciful Father, God too experiences Lent, since he is concerned for us he waits for us he awaits our return. For God “formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life” ( Genesis 2:7) we exist because he breathed into us the breath of life. As we humbly bow our heads to receive the ashes, we are reminded of this truth: we are the Lord’s we belong to him. With God, we will rise from our ashes, but without him, we are dust. We come from the earth and we need heaven we need him. He is the Creator, while we are the fragile clay fashioned by his hands. They bring us back to the essential truth of our lives: the Lord alone is God and we are the work of his hands. First, to return to the truth about ourselves. The ashes remind us who we are and whence we come. ![]()
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