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Given the history of Ash Wednesday's emergence and various morphings over the centuries as a ritual-symbol inaugurating a season of penitence, I simply do not see why, in the Roman Catholic Church, at least, the most apt liturgy would not be based on the sample penitential services (basically, liturgies of the word) found at the end of the Rite of Penance.https://praytellblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/pt.jpg41190