Photo Above: Father Robert Drury, from St. Mary’s of the Woods Catholic Church in Franklin, KY, officiating the Ash Wednesday Liturgy.
Outside of Catholicism, little is understood about Ash Wednesday. The wonderful thing about this holiday is that anyone can distribute ashes to anyone else–it is a reminder to us all of our mortality (Gen 3:19), and of how it is only God who is truly in charge in this world. He alone can give us “a crown of beauty instead of ashes” (Isaiah61:3b).