REPENT LENT
“For I acknowledge my offense, and my sin is before me always.” –Psalm 51:5 Jesus once remarked that if the miracles that He had worked in Bethsaida and Chorazin, two towns in Galilee, had occurred in pagan Tyre and Sidon, the people of those towns would have “reformed in sackcloth and ashes” (Mt 11:21). Repenting by the use of ashes was a custom of the chosen people. Job repented in ashes (Jb 2:8; 42:6), as did Daniel (Dn 9:3), Tamar (2 Sm 13:19), Judith (Jdt 9:1) and Esther (Est C:13). The prophets spoke of repenting with ashes (Is 58:5; Jer...
