And so the season of Lent begins. If you attended Ash Wednesday mass yesterday and Recieved ashes, then you heard one of two things while receiving your ashes. The meaning of one seems fairly obvious. The other seems to confuse people sometimes – but it shouldn’t. The obvious one is “Turn away from sin and be faithful to the gospel.” I think most people get this one. The other is “Remember, man, that you are dust and unto dust you shall return.” I love this one. Some people seem to feel like it’s too negative. And honestly, I think a lot of people just don’t get it. I was confused about it for years, too. I thought – “wait, I thought the reason I was showing up for mass in the first place was to keep this whole turning back into dust thing from happening?! What gives!?” These words come from scripture, actually. They occur after The Fall when God is explaining to Adam one of the main consequences of his Original Sin – separation from God and mortality. God ...