Lent Begins

Ash Wednesday

Ashes will be administered today at morning Mass, after which yours truly will show up at work and be subject to remarks about how he has a smudge on his forehead. The obtuse and uninformed will mean it kindly, the mischievous and the anti-clerical will intend a slight of some sort, and all will be the beneficiary of a brief catechism lesson. Deus vult!