It's Ash Wednesday.

These links have been very helpful, sharing it here with you.

Our Pope's Lenten Message for 2009
http://www.catholic.org/featured/headline.php?ID=6099&page=2

What's fasting and abstinence got to do with it?
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/Lent/fast-abstinence.html

Beginning new patterns
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/Lent/patterns.html

= new = Stations of the CROSS
http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/2007/documents/ns_lit_doc_20070406_via-crucis_en.html

Air Pollution and other stuff

I have not been blogging for some time. For those who have been asking why... well, I've not be well. If it's not a consistent cough, it's an infection of some kind. Feeling healthy is a bonus, and each day that I'm healthy, I'm grateful.

Lately I've been thinking a lot about air pollution. What kind of sicknesses are directly linked from it. A check on Wikipedia defines air pollution as :
.." the introduction of chemicals, particulate matter, or biological materials that cause