Many of you know Sister Monica Clare of the Community of Saint John Baptist. She now lives at the sisters’ convent in Mendham, New Jersey. But, for many years she served and lived here at Saint Mary’s, and she is still a great friend of the parish. Sister Monica is a master of the social-media post, and this week a wonderful photo appeared on her Instagram feed. In the photo, she is standing in profile right down there, at the crossing, all by herself, rather dwarfed by the great height of the walls and windows of the nave. It is Ash Wednesday. She holds a small pot of ashes in her hand. She is waiting for someone to arrive, so she can make the Sign of the Cross on her forehead and say, “Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.”
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