Man needs transformation or conversion.… Our only way to moral reform is through repentance of our sins and a return to God.” The Old Testament in no uncertain terms reiterates the same truth ...

Really? Why put ashes on your forehead?” A mark of ashes is intended to be an outward sign of inward repentance for our sin. But this is not just a modern liturgical symbol of western Christians.

They mean a kind of repentance, which cleans the heart from pollutions, changes its dark spots into bright spots, and disburdens the heavy load of sins from the back of the human being in order to ...

Ash Wednesday – officially known as the Day of Ashes — is a day of repentance, when Christians confess their sins and profess their devotion to God. During a Mass, a priest places the ashes ...