Beloved Dust (Ash Wednesday)
Who are you beneath the mask? The person whom nobody else knows. Perhaps not even your spouse. Who are you beneath the mask? That person whom only God has seen. In that Secret Place. In that place where the thoughts of our hearts are laid bare before the Living God of all Creation. In Culturally Christian (and particularly Catholic) countries throughout the World, the season between the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6 th ) and Shrove Tuesday (the last day before Lent) was historically a festival period of Carnivale - time of celebration and, for many, of wild abandon. Normal social conventions were often...