“Ashes” may prove to be a satisfying read whose complexities remain interesting long after the rather too abrupt conclusion has been reached.
Is ‘Ashes’ the literary novel some Catholics have been waiting for?
A devotional life will not leave us as it found us
The U.S. Catholic bishops explained in a 2003 document that “popular devotional practices do not replace the liturgical life of the church; rather they extend it into daily life.”