CHRISTIANS OBSERVE ASH WEDNESDAY… A Christian devotee lights a candle at the Wodehouse Church at Colaba on Wednesday as Christians around the world began the 40-day-long Lent by observing Ash Wednesday. On this day, the Pastor applies ash to the foreheads of Christians to signify an inner repentance. In a typical Ash Wednesday observance, Christians are invited to the altar to receive the ash, before receiving the Holy Supper. The Pastor applies ash in the shape of the cross on the forehead of each devotee, while speaking the words, “For dust you are and to dust you shall return” (Genesis 3:19).