(CNN Español) – “Polvo eres y en polvo te convertirás”. “Greetings and creation in the gospel.” These phrases, pronounced by sacerdotes mean dibujan con ceniza la señal de la cruz en la frente de los feligreses, representan todo el Miércoles de ceniza: el inicio de la Cuaresma (los 40 días en los que catholicos se prepara par pasion, muerte and the resurrection of Jesus). This year, the Churches of Ceniza will be seen by the miles of Catholics with that sign in their cara, what does it mean or what are the Churches of Ceniza?
The cenizas, as a result of the beginning of the palms of the Domingo de Ramos of the previous year, are impressed by the Catholics as a recorder of the temporal life and the temporal: “The imposition of the cenizas we record that our life in the earth is a passenger and that our final life will be found in heaven ”, explained on the catholic.net website.
Although the Majority of Traditions of the Catholic Church, its origin is linked to Judaism: in antiquity, these tenants are covered with costumes that have been made or are prepared for an important celebration. It is a symbol of “from the conversion of his small life to a life with God”, aggregate in dicho web portal. The Catholic Church adopted this practice and, in principle, only the “penitents who commenced their public penance” received the award.
A woman receives the sign of the cross during a mass of the Mercenaries of Ceniza in San Salvador. CREDIT: MARVIN RECINOS / AFP / Getty ImagesAs far as we are concerned, in 384 AD, when, according to catholic.net, “the Cuaresma acquired a penitentiary sentence for all Christians” and, even more late, he sailed in the XI, when the Church of Rome adopted the actual costume Impress the prices to start this period. This product, explained on the aciprensa.com website, has a time in which these practices will be implemented (between Seals VIII and X).
The cenizas, those that deviate, as a signal of a terrestrial life characterized by the “unbearable caducidity and increase fragility of human life, subject to death”, described in aciprensa.com. It is a record for the Catholics to acquire “a conscience that is more deaf than the echo of what we are in this fat itinerary about the earth, and what our impulses and estimates are to work until the end, to the end of the Kingdom of God restrains itself among us and triumphs over justice ”, added to the mentioned page.
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Al ser el Miércoles de Ceniza elinicio de la Cuaresma, y la cuaresma el preparationo para par la Passion de Cristo mediante la reflexion, la Iglesia cathólica pide a sus feligreses que oren y realicen ciertos victimicios: el ayuno y la abstinencoles tanto de Ceniza como todos los viernes posteriores hasta el Domingo de Resurrección.
The ayuno consist in making a sole comedy go to the day, while abstinence is based on no carne. According to catholic.net, abstinence is mandatory from 14 years and upwards, from 18 to 59 years. Catholics believe that, while these victims are victims, they are purified and pissed off “God forbid” and the word “we want to change lives to always aggravate”, aggregate in web dicha.
The fair of the Mercenaries of Ceniza falls together with the day that celebrates the end of the era of carnivals and varies from year to year depending on when the Semana Santa will be.