Many came out of their churches, last Wednesday, with ash mark on their foreheads. As is the tradition in many churches that observe "Ash Wednesday", which marks the beginning of the Lenten season, priests who made the ash mark on each person's forehead uttered words like, "Dust thou art and to dust thou shalt return".
In the Bible, the words were addressed to Adam when he was being driven away from the Garden of Eden after sin had separated him from God. They still serve to remind man of his mortality.
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