Ash Wednesday

Today Mazenod College celebrated Ash Wednesday.

Student leaders and staff from our various homerooms gathered in the College Chapel for the celebration of the Eucharist and to receive their ashes. The leaders were then commissioned to go and distribute the ashes to their fellow students.

Ash Wednesday marks the start of the Lenten Season leading up to the great Christian celebration of Easter, the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. We receive the blessed ashes symbolising our preparedness to undertake some form of repentance and a renewal of our lives with our focus on the Gospel message of Jesus. The Christian tradition of Lent involves Prayer, Fasting, and giving. The ashes also symbolise our human mortality, we have a limited time allotted to us on this earth.