Today is the first day of the forty days before Easter

It is not a holiday, but it is an important day in the Christian calendar.

Also known as “ash Wednesday,” today is the first day of the forty days before Easter.

At this point, and after having buried the Entrudo, the churches begin to fill up with the faithful in honor of Christianity.

In fact, ashes are one of the most significant symbols of the Christian religion, and symbolize a kind of need for change, the certainty that in them one will find a new course and forget past things

Traditionally, the ashes are made with the firing of the branches of Palm Sunday of the previous year. This is one of the meanings that can be attributed to ashes, but there are only those who perform this ritual for the sake of respect and without any adjoining desire. During the masses held this day throughout the country, the ashes are placed by the priest, in the form of a cross, on the foreheads of Catholics, where he remembers:

“With the sweat of your face you will eat your bread, until he returns to earth, since it was taken from her; because you are dust, and to dust he shall return. “

(Gênesis 3, 19)

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