Mexican faithful mark start of lent with Ash Wednesday

Record ID: 1661899

  • Title: Mexican faithful mark start of lent with Ash Wednesday
  • Date: 2nd March 2022
  • Summary: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (MACH 2, 2022) (REUTERS) CATHOLIC PRIEST MARKING PARISHIONERS DURING MASS PARISHIONERS LINED UP TO BE MARKED WITH ASHES BY CATHOLIC PRIEST PARISHIONER BEING MARKED WITH ASHES BY PRIEST’S HAND HOLDING CONTAINER HOLDING ASHES PRIEST MARKING PERSON WITH ASHES PARISHIONERS LINED UP IN CHURCH WAITING TO BE MARKED WITH ASHES PARISHIONERS LINED UP IN CHURCH BEING MARKED WITH ASHES BY PRIEST PARISHIONERS WAITING IN QUEUE TO RECEIVE ASHES VARIOUS OF PRIEST MARKING PARISHIONERS WITH ASHES (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) CATHOLIC, ROSALVA ORTEGA, SAYING: “Ask God to help us in these very difficult situations we are experiencing, one of them being the pandemic, it is not a quarantine anymore, we’re in the third year and now there’s the situation of Russia’s invasion to the Ukrainian people, just imagine, the pandemic and now the killing of innocent people, well we need to have our faith in a high place.” PRIEST DURING MASS PARISHIONERS DURING MASS WIDE VIEW OF PRIEST IN ALTAR DURING MASS (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) CATHOLIC, ARTEMIO SORIANO, SAYING: “Because I want to get close to God, feed my spirit, mind and soul so that I can be closer to God. Ask him and beg him to end the pandemic, to end the issue of war throughout the world, so that we are united as people, as a family, as persons.” VARIOUS OF PRIEST MARKING PARISHIONERS WITH ASHES PARISHIONERS WALKING TO ALTAR PARISHIONERS BEING MARKED WITH ASHES BY PRIEST PARISHIONERS SITTING AT CHURCH
  • Embargoed: 16th March 2022 23:33
  • Keywords: Catholicism Mexico Religion Ukraine ash Wednesday
  • Location: Mexico City, MEXICO
  • City: Mexico City, MEXICO
  • Country: Mexico
  • Topics: South America / Central America,Religion/Belief,Society/Social Issues
  • Reuters ID: LVA001164602032022RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Catholics in Mexico flock to churches on Wednesday (March 2) to celebrate the first day of Lent.
    Many of the faithful gather at cathedrals and churches to mark a 40-day period of prayer and fasting.
    According to canonical gospels, Jesus spent 40 days fast in the desert before his crucifixion during which he resisted temptation by the devil.
    "Ask God to help us in these very difficult situations we are experiencing, one of them being the pandemic," worshipper Rosalva Ortega said. "And now there's the situation of Russia's invasion of the Ukrainian people."
    The name Ash Wednesday comes from the practice of marking the sign of the cross with ash on foreheads as a sign of mourning and repentance to God before the Easter period.
    Mexico is home to the world's second-largest Catholic community after Brazil but numbers of faithful are falling.
    (Production: Josue Gonzalez, Rodolfo Pena Roja, Alfonso Duarte, Nina Lopez)
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