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From Vatican News:

As Lent begins, Pope Leo says that ashes remind us of “the weight of a world that is ablaze, of entire cities destroyed by war.”

Pope Leo reflected on repentance, community, and death, as he presided over Ash Wednesday Mass in the Dominican church Saint Sabina in Rome.

The ashes the attendees were about to receive on their forehands, he said, remind us of “the weight of a world that is ablaze, of entire cities destroyed by war.”

The state of the world, Pope Leo stressed, asks us on this Ash Wednesday “to call death for what it is, and to carry its marks within us”.