Show LENTEN SEASON NEAR AT HAND Ash Wednesday Marks Begin Beginning Beginning Beginning ning of Period of Sack Sackcloth Sackcloth cloth and Ashes The Lenten season will begin elk Wed neada April I 1 Arti sh Wednesday when there will nill be a cessation e of many man social festivities and the period of ot solemnity will wilt begin bagin At t St Marys alTs cathedral masses will be said at and 8 S ashes will b be blessed at the 8 mass mas Every Wednesday during Lent Len there will in be ben hen benediction blessed sacrament and sermon and on Fridays until Easter the dote close oe of Lent there will wUl be Stations of the Cross and benediction at the cathedral Easter this year taIls falls on April II It Next year the date will be March 27 During the last century Easter came on OR April 11 only four times 1841 1819 and 1830 lQ During the present century it will fall rail fallon fallon on April 11 four times Umes this year ear and 1971 1982 1993 In Tn 2000 of the century Easter will fall on April 23 |