Lent is for reflection, change, and remembering in hope that while we are from ash and will return to ash, we are God's beloved, marked with the sign of the cross; we are remembered and loved.
When he died, at the age of fifty-seven, in Leningrad in 1935, his friends and disciples buried his ashes in a grave marked with a black square.
Photo: Preschoolers at the St. Augustine Catholic school in Ossining, N.Y., listening to a talk about Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday, when foreheads are marked with the sign of the cross, and ends on Easter Sunday.
Come in the autumn and the same fields will be ash-gold stubble and chalk-flecked ploughed earth, the roads marked with tractor tyre prints, and the hedges and trees on the horizons a shade of violet.
Last week, though, the ashes of nine victims were found neatly packaged and clearly marked, with the names of the deceased and place of their death included on accompanying death certificates, the Delaware Division of Forensic Science said Thursday.
Under new management but indelibly marked with the stain of Hillsborough, South Yorkshire Police might have considered a new uniform made out of hi-vis sackcloth with ashes epaulets.
Brilleaux's ashes were scattered on an small island between Canvey and the mainland after Shirley found a map he had made as a kid, marked with an X.
