![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As noted in a recent message from Dr. Bisognano, ASH President, to the ASH Members, the 2017 ASH Annual Scientific Meeting will be held jointly with the American Heart Association (AHA) Council on Hypertension 2017 Scientific Sessions to be held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, September 14-17, San. March 1 is, which marks the beginning of 2017’s Lent season, a 40-day period dedicated to reflection, prayer and fasting ahead of Easter. On Ash Wednesday, Catholics and many other Christians will have in the shape of a cross. People generally wear the ashes — which symbolize penance, mourning and mortality — throughout the day to publicly express their faith and penance. The ashes used on Ash Wednesday are made from the burning of palms blessed in the previous year’s Palm Sunday celebration, when Christians carry palms to recognize the Gospels’ reference to Jesus’s path being on the day he entered Jerusalem. On Palm Sunday, churches bless and hand out palm fronds that come from distributors in tropical and subtropical climates, according to. In the U.S., many palm suppliers, based primarily in Florida, Texas, California and other warm parts of the country, provide fresh palms to nearly 18,000 Catholic parishes before Palm Sunday, Catholic Online reported. Church-goers wave the palm leaves to mark the feast day that begins Holy Week.
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