Today, the Catholic world is plunged into that season of fasting and prayer that is called Lent. It begins with Ash Wednesday, where faithful Catholics have ashes smeared on their foreheads with the invocation "From dust you came; to dust you shall return."
For some, this is in stark contrast to the days preceding. Those were days filled with food and revelry. For them, Lent is the end of the party. It is an icy cold shower the morning after a good party.
For all, it serves as a stark reminder that man does not live by bread alone. Whether arriving like the shock of an icy shower or gradually like the onset of winter, we are prodded to examine our own mortality in a world that refuses to acknowledge death. In this death, this silence, we are freed from the distractions of this world to ponder the next.
Memento Mori. Remember your death.
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