Ash Wednesday is a Christian holiday or holy day. This holiday, because it is not mentioned in Scripture, is not a holiday that all Christians recognize. Ash Wednesday is the first day of forty-day Lent which ends with Easter. Today in society, more Protestants have been celebrating Ash Wednesday and applying ashes on their foreheads. The ash comes from burned palm fronds from the previous year's Palm Sunday. The main significance of ash is that it symbolizes death and reminds us of mortality.
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http://www.ash-wednesday.org/
http://www.slate.com/id/2137092
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