For this year’s Ash Wednesday, Catholic churches around the country will return to the traditional practice of the priest marking churchgoers with ash on their foreheads. | dpazzibuganINQ /PDI
The Manila Archdiocese advised priests to “discourage self-imposition of ashes,” stressing the rite is “always done in the context of a liturgical celebration.”
But the archdiocese allowed priests and ministers to administer the imposition of ashes on the sick and the elderly who are physically unable to go to church. This period will culminate in Holy Week and Easter Sunday to mark Christ’s suffering, death and resurrection. In 2021, the second year of the pandemic, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines issued guidelines on the observance of Ash Wednesday amid the lockdown of churches.
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