On February 22, Ash Wednesday, the Boys’ Town socio-educational institution, a center with Catholic ideology, celebrated the rite of the imposition of ashes as a gesture of beginning of Lent and the attitude of interior conversion.
The ashes that are imposed on the heads of those who participate in this rite are the remains of the burning of the Palm Sunday branches of the previous liturgical year. As a Catholic institution and with the Augustinian stamp, all the residents and workers of the educational center approached to receive the ashes on their heads.
This year Town staff were divided into three groups with a specific hour for each one in order to live the ceremony in a more reflective way and provide a space for the internalization. Thus the seventh, eighth and collaborators of the administration had their space at 8:00 am. The director Jesús María Ramos Leza, an Augustinian Recollect, was the one who, along with Evelyn Ramírez, from human management, and Jorge Guillén, from supply, imposed the ash on this group.
The ninth and tenth graders, the ACAI staff and the human trainers had the opportunity to ceremony at 9:15 a.m. The Augustinian Recollect Eduardo Chávez, Catalina Berrocal, worker social, and Laura Cordero, human trainer, were in charge of imposing the ashes.
Finally, from the third group made up of eleventh and twelfth graders with teachers and farm collaborators celebrated the rite at 10:00 am, and it was Prior Rogelio Morgan, Augustinian Recollect, the psychologist Ingrid Umaña and the religion teacher Daniel Víquez who put ashes on the heads of the attendees.
The three ceremonies took place in the Our Lady of Consolation temple, located within the territory of the Town.
The pastoral area of the Boys’ Town has not reduced its work to the rite of the imposition of ashes so that the staff live Lent with a Christian spirit, but has organized other activities and has also used social networks to respond to the challenge posed by Lent 2023.