"I give to St. Paul's Newman Church of Fargo, a nonprofit corporation currently located at 2505 University Drive N, Suite 100, Fargo, ND 58102, or its successor thereto, ______________ [written amount or percentage of the estate or description of property] for its unrestricted use and purpose."
"Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
"Ash Wednesday, this day that we wear these ashes on our forehead, really what it's meant to be is a moment where we realize something is wrong in the world... Ash Wednesday is the day when I look in my heart and say, 'there is something wrong with my heart.'"
- Fr. Mike Schmitz
As Christians, we celebrate Mass this day and recognize that we are broken. But broken, we are His.
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season where we will venture for 40-days and offer Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving turning our life towards the cross, the cross which is marked on our heads this day.