Lent Season amid the Pandemic
Lent, also known as Ash Wednesday, is a solemn religious celebration in the Christian liturgical year. On Ash Wednesday, a traditional solemn holiday, church priests or ministers dip their fingers in the ashes tray and spread it on the forehead of the congregation in the form of a cross. They would say, "From dust you came, and from dust you will return." Ash is made by burning palm branches on Sunday of the previous year's palm. Lent lasts 40 days without Sunday (that is, the season is 46 days). It is essential to be 40 days. "The number 40 has always had special spiritual significance regarding preparation," says Father William Saunders of the Catholic Education Resource Center. Jesus fasted and prayed for 40 days and 40 nights in the desert before He began His public ministry (Matthew 4:2). Easter Sunday, known as a holy week, the Christian church is meaningful. On the first day of the holy Week, I remembered Jesus's victory entries in Jesus S...