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Lent: The Many Shades of Purple

Sylvia Hubilla Round Rock, Texas “For dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return.” Lent begins with this stark reminder of one’s humble beginning, and end, in the ritual of what we call Miercoles de Ceniza, or Ash Wednesday. In the Philippines, where 80 percent of the population are Catholics, almost every person you […]