1) TS Eliot poem 2) Beginning of Lent 3) Faber and Faber book 4) Fast start 5) February observance 6) First day of Lent 7) It follows Mardi Gras 8) Lent opener 9) March observance 10) Poetry by TS Eliot 11) The first day of Lent 12) When a forehead may be marked
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Ash Wednesday, a day of fasting, is the first day of Lent in Western Christianity. It therefore occurs 46 days before Easter and can fall as early as 4 February or as late as 10 March. Ash Wednesday is observed by many Western Christian denominations, including Catholics, Lutherans, Methodists, Anglicans, and Presbyterians. According to the canoni...
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First day of Lent, 40 days before Easter Sunday
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• The first day of Lent; -- so called from a custom in the Roman Catholic church of putting ashes, on that day, upon the foreheads of penitents.
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(from the article `Eliot, T.S.`) ...Dante appeared two years after Eliot was confirmed in the Church of England (1927); in that year he also became a British subject. The first long ... ...last, written when he went into exile: `Perch`io non spero di tornar giamai` (`Because I hope not ever to return`), a line that s...
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in the Christian church, the first day of Lent, occurring 6 12 weeks before Easter (between February 4 and March 11, depending on the date of ... [2 related articles]
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First day of
Lent, the period of fasting in the Christian calendar leading up to
Easter....
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First day of Lent. It is called this because during the liturgy of this day we celebrate the rite by putting a little ash on the head or forehead, to remind man of his frailty and invite him to conversion
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Ash` Wednes'day (ăsh` wĕnz'da). The first day of Lent; -- so called from a custom in the Roman Catholic church of putting ashes, on that day, upon the foreheads of penitents.
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The first day of Lent. The day after Shrove Tuesday.
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Ash Wednesday is the first day of lent, the seventh Wednesday before Easter. Ash Wednesday is so named from the ancient custom in the Roman Catholic church of sprinkling ashes upon the heads of those condemned to do penance on this day.
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The first day of the Lent in the Western calendar, where individuals spread ashes on their forehead as a sign of penitence or mortality (Smith and Green 1995
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n] - the 7th Wednesday before Easter
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noun the 7th Wednesday before Easter; the first day of Lent; the day following Mardi Gras (`fat Tuesday`); a day of fasting and repentance
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First day of Lent, the period of fasting in the Christian calendar leading up to Easter. Christians used to cover their heads with ashes to show repentance, a custom continued today by some Christians, including Roman Catholics, who mark their foreheads with a cross in ash, as a sign of penitence (sorrow for sins)
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the first day of Lent.
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