Scoop Images: Ash Wednesday At The Cenotaph
Wednesday, 25 February 2004, 3:25 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson
A small group of worshippers marked Ash Wednesday today with
the traditional marking of foreheads with ashes beside the
Cenotaph outside Parliament. The service of the Ashes was
led by Father Gerard Burns of St Anne's Catholic Parish,
Newtown. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Christian
season of Lent, a period of 40 days leading up to the
celebrations of Holy Week and Easter Sunday.
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Father Burns blesses the
ashes.
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Worshippers have the ashes
placed on their
foreheads.
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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.