In Washington, DC, Washington Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl celebrated Ash Wednesday Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle. Lent, in most Christian denominations, is the forty-day liturgical season of fasting and prayer before Easter. Ash Wednesday is a time for repentance and it marks the beginning of Lent. The Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle plays a leading role in the nation's capital as the center of its Roman Catholic community.
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Reading
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Most Rev. Donald William Wuerl Homily
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Cardinal William Wakefield Baum *
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Ash Wednesday Sermon on abstinence and fasting.
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Archbishop Blesses Ashes
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Imposition of Ashes
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Imposition of Ashes *
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Distributing Ashes to the Faithful
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