What does Ash Wednesday mean?
Ash Wednesday is the first day of the Lenten season. Lent is usually for forty days and ends with the Holy Week. Holy week has Good Friday when Jesus was crucified and Easter is when he rose from the dead. Mostly Catholics celebrate Ash Wednesday by putting ash on their foreheads. Generally, some people abstain for eating meat, going partying, gambling, smoking and other such devices for the length of the season. That is why you see that everything came to a halt before it started. Lenten season is a very sacred time. When I was young there had a woman that had a tree that we uses to prick at 12:00 pm on Good Friday and blood uses to come from it. Only on this day one can see blood. I always long to see a tree like this again and only last night I was thinking about it. Some people do not believe me when I tell them about the blood. it is said that Jesus’s cross was made from this tree.
