Mount Community Celebrates Start Of Lenten Season

Mount Saint Mary College Dominican Scholars of Hope Sean Ocasio and Melissa Diaz set up the Lenten Cross and distribute Blessing Boxes to collect items on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. Photo: Lee Ferris
Mount Saint Mary College Dominican Scholars of Hope Sean Ocasio and Melissa Diaz set up the Lenten Cross and distribute Blessing Boxes to collect items on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. Photo: Lee Ferris

NEWBURGH – Mount Saint Mary College celebrated Ash Wednesday on March 5 with Masses in the Chapel of the Most Holy Rosary and ash distribution services around campus.
Students, faculty, and staff from both the Mount and Bishop Dunn Memorial School received ashes from Fr. Gregoire Fluet, Vice President for Mission and Ministry and campus chaplain.

Ash Wednesday marks the start of the holy season of Lent for many Christians. It lasts for the 40 days leading up to Easter.

Mount Saint Mary College’s Father Greg Fluet celebrates Ash Wednesday distributing ashes in front of the View on March 5, 2025. Photo: Lee Ferris
Mount Saint Mary College’s Father Greg Fluet celebrates Ash Wednesday distributing ashes in front of the View on March 5, 2025. Photo: Lee Ferris

The night before, Sean Ocasio of Monroe, N.Y. and Melissa Diaz of Middletown, N.Y., members of the college’s Dominican Scholars of Hope (DSH), set up the Lenten Cross outside of the chapel. A living and learning community for highly motivated Mount students, DSH is rooted in the Dominican heritage of the college.

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