St. Ignatius of Loyola, in his Spiritual Exercises, wrote that “Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God, our Lord, and by this means to save his soul.” The season of Lent helps us remember that Heaven is our goal, and our time on earth a transitory trial. On Ash Wednesday, this ephemeral quality of earthly life is driven home when the priest makes the sign of the cross with ashes on one’s forehead and says “Remember man, that thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt