Wednesday was Ash Wednesday. It’s the first day of the Christian Lenten season.
Students from Cathedral Prep observed the holy day together at morning mass. Those we spoke to said the next 40 days will strengthen their faith.
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Repent and believe in the gospel. With those words, students from Cathedral Prep received ashes in the sign of the cross.
“Repent, we all mess up. We all have things that nag at us every single day. And repent is just give it up to God and believing in the gospel is just believing in what Jesus taught us,” said Owen Carson, Cathedral Prep student.
The mass at Saint Peter Cathedral Wednesday morning signified the start of the Lent. The 40-day-long season, not including Sundays, leads up to the Easter celebration. It is observed with fasting, prayer and giving to the poor.
“Lent is an invitation to know Him, and of course, to love Him. But Lent is also a time to come back in whatever way, perhaps we’ve fallen away in prayer, or of giving to the poor, or if we’re focusing on ourselves too much that we get rid of some of that,” said Fr. Jason Feigh, Saint John Cathedral.