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Scoop Images: Ash Wednesday At The Cenotaph
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.
The location.
Father Burns blesses the
ashes.
Worshippers have the ashes
placed on their
foreheads.
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
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.
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