Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, the Christian season of suffering, repentance, and for some, the purgatorial path to redemption.
For Christians, the gift of Christ's suffering and the sacrifice of the Cross is the seminal event in the road to eternal salvation. On Ash Wednesday, we are reminded of the ephemerality of this world, the emptiness of sin, and the preeminence of God's everlasting kingdom: "Remember, man, thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return."
Gov. Charlie Baker didn't mind his trip to New Hampshire Saturday to campaign for his preferred presidential candidate, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. It seems he rather enjoyed himself.
"One of the great things about New Hampshire is they do get to kick the tires on these folks over and over and over again over the course of that first-in-the-nation primary season," the governor told Boston Herald Radio on Tuesday. "Having been up there myself on Saturday and had a chance to see just how much energy there is up there and how much fun people are having, I've got to tell you that not ever being really part of that kind of presidential scrum is kind of too bad for all of us down here in Massachusetts."
