This Wednesday March 1 Noon and 7:30 p.m. [6:30 p.m. Spanish]: Citing God's admonishment to Adam in Genesis 3:19 "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." The seventh Wednesday before Easter and the first day of Lent, the traditional observance of Ash Wed-nesday, which dates from the early Middle Ages, is to receive a mark of ashes on the forehead as a token of penitence and mortality.