Yes, Lent is definitely a time for repenting of our sins in a very serious way. But, in almost every case I can remember in the Novus Ordo masses or services on Ash Wednesday, the ‘Repent’ one was always used. Codex, the Latin word for tree trunk, came to be used for the wax-coated wood.The priest or ministers can say either one.
Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee and thou shalt eat the herbs of the earth. And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life. God created them to live in paradise without death.‘To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband’ s power, and he shall have dominion over thee. Dying and turning back to earth, (from which they were made), was part of their punishment for having rebelled against God who is good. But, everyday is a time to repent and change, (while we still have a chance), not just Lent.There is only one prayer used in the traditional Latin Mass for the distribution of ashes and that has been used for hundreds and hundreds of years:‘Memento, homo, quia pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris.’‘Remember, man, that thou art dust, and unto dust thou shalt return.’This prayer is taken right out of the Holy Bible and is part of the curse that God put on Adam and Eve for sinning.
pigs (who eat corn and other food that comes from the earth).The word humus is the latin word for earth. eggs and chicken meat, (chickens eat grass, grain, bugs, dirt). cow milk and meat, (cows eat grass and grains that grow out of the ground to grow and produce milk). And then we continually sustain our bodies by eating things that come from the earth. These elements came from (a tiny bit from our fathers seed), but mostly from our mother’s bodies and all that she ate from the earth. Our body is nothing more than elements sustained together by God.
6:20-21.And precisely what is that which will not return to dust and of which we should be working on in Lent? It is our soul. For where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also.’ Matt. But lay up to yourselves treasures in heaven: where neither the rust nor moth doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. He reminds us that we should instead be placing our heart on the eternal and spiritual things that last forever in heaven:‘Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust and moth consume, and where thieves break through and steal. But the problem is:Humans ≠ Humble (Hard to ever find a humble human.)So, in the Gospel reading for Ash Wednesday, Jesus reminds us that all that we have here has been created from ‘dust’ and can return to ‘dust’. Oh, by the way, humility also comes from the word humus, ‘down to earth’.
Because, if you really are honest with yourself, you too will be buried in the earth and be dust again from once you were taken.And for this reason, we want to get rid of our attachment to the things made out of the elements of this world that are passing away, and put our hearts on those that endure forever. Only some of the saints bodies, who by God’s miracle, are incorrupt and do not turn back into dust and bones.So, this Lent, let us be Human = Humble, and not Human ≠ Humble. No matter how rich, middle class, or poor, everyone of these people’s bodies, will be eventually consumed by worms and become only dust and bones. At the second coming of Jesus, our (humus) bodies will be transformed into glorified (humus) and be united with our souls in heaven.I have buried hundreds of people in the ground at cemeteries. But their souls were redeemed by Jesus on the cross and are in Heaven with God. (It is said that they are buried on Calvary).
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