This first meditation comes on Ash Wednesday, when our heads are marked with the ashes of the last years palm fronds, saying the word: "Remember man that you are dust, and unto dust you shall return." St Thomas Aquinas reflects on death, and how Jesus broke its grip on the world through his Passion.

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