Valentine’s Day meets Ash Wednesday: Navigating love amid penance


MANILA: Globally, Feb 14 shines as a day for love and all its myths and facts, but for many Catholics this year, it also marks a time for reflection and penance as Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday fell on the same day.

The coincidence of a time of love and the start of Lent is not common.

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