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 | | The ashes are sprinkled with holy water and fumigated with incense. | | | Receiving ashes on the head as a reminder of mortality and a sign of sorrow for sin was a practice of the Anglo-Saxon church in the 10th century. | | | In the blessing of the ashes four prayers are used, all of them ancient. |
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http://www.spiritrestoration.org/Church/Holidays/Ash_Wednesday.htm
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| | Catholic Online |
| | Ashes are a symbol of penance made sacramental by the blessing of the Church, and they help us develop a spirit of humility and sacrifice. | | | On Ash Wednesday, the Bishop blessed the hair shirts which they were to wear during the forty days of penance, and sprinkled over them ashes made from the palms from the previous year. | | | The ashes are christened with Holy Water and are scented by exposure to incense. |
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| | ASH WEDNESDAY - LoveToKnow Article on ASH WEDNESDAY |
| | After another prayer the ashes are A rice sprinkled with holy water and thrice censed. | | | This ceremony is derived from the custom of public penance the early Church, when the sinner to be reconciled had to pear in the congregation clad in sackcloth and covered with 0 hes (cf. | | | The celebrant himself either sprinkles the ash on ar s own head in silence, or receives it from the priest of highest re gnity present. |
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| | Ash Wednesday, Lent, and Easter |
| | Ash Wednesday should remind Christians that they are sinners in need of a savior, and that their salvation comes at the sacrifice of God's Son: | | | Ash Wednesday begins a forty day period during which Christians remember their sinfulness, repent, ask God's forgiveness, and recognize that God's forgiveness comes at an infinite price -- the death of Christ on the cross on our behalf. | | | For them, this first experience of Ash Wednesday and Lent has special significance as God's eternal plan of salvation is applied to them personally. |
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| | BBC - Religion & Ethics - Ash Wednesday |
| | Ash Wednesday is the beginning of Lent for Western Christian churches. | | | The modern practice in Roman Catholic churches nowadays, as the ashes are being administered, is for the priest to say something like Turn away from sin and believe the gospel. | | | Ashes can also be bought from Church suppliers. |
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| | Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : Ash Wednesday (Activity) |
| | The priest sprinkles the ashes with holy water in silence. | | | A Program for Ash Wednesday for a family, or for a child and his friends or cousins, is contained in the book "Children of the Church." Called Lent is the Church's Springtime, this program includes speaking parts for various types of children's voices and personalities. | | | And Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Lent fast, is a day of happiness, a Christian feast. |
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| | Ash Wednesday |
| | Thus when the priest uses his thumb to sign one of the faithful with the ashes, he says, "Remember, man, that thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return," which is modeled after God's address to Adam (Genesis 3:19; cf. | | | The early Church Fathers seized on this tav-chi-cross-christos connection and expounded it in their homilies, seeing in Ezekiel a prophetic foreshadowing of the sealing of Christians as servants of Christ. | | | By having their foreheads marked with the sign of a cross, this symbolizes that the person belongs to Jesus Christ, who died on a Cross. |
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| | The Season of Lent |
| | Ash Wednesday is a somber day of reflection on what needs to change in our lives if we are to be fully Christian. | | | Finally, the imposition of ashes was extended to the whole congregation in services similar to those that are now observed in many Christian churches on Ash Wednesday. | | | However, much of the background of evangelical Christianity, for example the heritage of John Wesley, was very "high church." Many of the churches that had originally rejected more formal and deliberate liturgy are now recovering aspects of a larger Christian tradition as a means to refocus on spirituality in a culture that is increasingly secular. |
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| | Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : February 09, 2005 : Ash Wednesday |
| | The ashes are blessed at least during the first Mass of the day, but they may also be imposed during all the Masses of the day, after the homily, and even outside the time of Mass to meet the needs of the faithful. | | | The blessed ashes are then "imposed" on the faithful as a sign of conversion, penance, fasting and human mortality. | | | Here is a Lenten prayer that the family may pray every night from Ash Wednesday to the first Saturday in Lent, to turn the family's spiritual focus towards this holy season. |
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http://www.catholicculture.org/lit/calendar/day.cfm?date=2005-02-09
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| | Patron Saints Index: Ash Wednesday |
| | Ashes, symbolic of penance, are blessed and used to mark the Sign of the Cross on the foreheads of the faithful during the day, usually during Mass. | | | Turn away from sin, and be faithful to the Gospel. | | | It was designated as the first day of Lent by Pope Saint Gregory the Great who also extended an earlier, shorter period of pre-Easter penitence and reflection to its current 40 weekdays. |
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http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/define56.htm
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| | The Most Uncomfortable Day of the Year (Mk 1:15) |
| | In the liturgy for the imposition of the ashes, the words alternate between the so-called "fall" story in Genesis and Mark’s summary of Jesus’ central theme for preaching: "[Remember] you are dust, and to dust you shall return" (Gen. 3:19), and "Repent, and believe in the gospel" (Mark 1:15). | | | Ash Wednesday is not known in the church as our good humor day. | | | But there is no getting around the fact that Ash Wednesday is the most uncomfortable day of the church year. |
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| | History of Easter: Ash Wednesday |
| | ASH WEDNESDAY In the western church the first day of Lent is called Ash Wednesday from the ceremonial use of ashes, as a symbol of penitence, in the service prescribed for the day. | | | The priest then invites those present to approach and, dipping his thumb in the ashes, marks them as they kneel with the sign of the cross on the forehead, with the words: Remember, man, thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return. | | | This ceremony is derived from the custom of public penance in the early church. |
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| | ASH WEDNESDAY |
| | Ashes from last year’s burned Palms are sprinkled on peoples’ heads in church. | | | Ashes were placed in glasses to stop those from drinking who abused alcohol. | | | There are many beliefs connected to this day and to ashes. |
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| | Archives: Story |
| | Today is called Ash Wednesday because Catholics are asked to go to their church and have their foreheads marked with blessed ashes in a sign of the cross. | | | The mark is on the forehead because in the Bible a mark there is considered a symbol of a person's ownership. | | | Today, what an individual gives up is between him and God, but the church encourages one to give up something that is truly a sacrifice. |
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| | Ash Wednesday |
| | Ashes are used, too, to express the penitence necessary to come to Christ so that we can experience bodily resurrection at the End of the Age. | | | After the priest sprinkles the ashes with holy water and incenses them, he puts some on his own forehead, and then on the foreheads of those present, the head being the seat of pride. | | | Before the Mass, the blessing of the ashes begins with an antiphon and a verse of a psalm begging God's grace and mercy. |
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| | Ash Wednesday on Encyclopedia.com |
| | On this day ashes are placed on the foreheads of the faithful to remind them of death, of the sorrow they should feel for their sins, and of the necessity of changing their lives. | | | Roman Catholic church in Manila as they offer their personal prayers during the observance of Ash Wednesday at a Manila church 13 February, 2002. | | | SAFAT, KUWAIT-- Catholic Kuwaitis burn candles at Ash Wednesday Mass at Bishop of Holy Family Cathedral in Safat, Kuwait, Wednesday March 5, 2003. |
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| | Salon Word by Word: Anne Lamott's online diary |
| | Maybe his ashes will blow that person into a place where things do not come out right, where things cannot be boxed up or spackled back together, but where somehow we can see with whatever joy we can muster the four or five leaves on the formerly barren tree. | | | Everywhere I went I'd see businessmen and women marching purposefully by with holy ashes on their foreheads. | | | And still on Ash Wednesday I sang, of faith and love, of repentance. |
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| | Ash Wednesday. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002 |
| | In some churches, ashes are placed on the foreheads of worshipers on Ash Wednesday as a reminder of their mortality. | | | The words of God to Adam in the Bible are often used in the ceremony: “Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” | | | The seventh Wednesday before Easter; the first day of Lent for most Christians; the day after “Fat Tuesday,&; or Mardi Gras. |
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| | Ash Wednesday |
| | Thus when the priest uses his thumb to sign one of the faithful with the ashes, he says, "Remember, man, that thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return," which is modeled after God's address to Adam (Genesis 3:19; cf. | | | The early Church Fathers seized on this tav-chi-cross-christos connection and expounded it in their homilies, seeing in Ezekiel a prophetic foreshadowing of the sealing of Christians as servants of Christ. | | | In Bible times the custom was to fast, wear sackcloth, sit in dust and ashes, and put dust and ashes on one's head. |
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| | Sermon and Liturgy for Ash Wednesday - Year B |
| | There are several stories in the Bible where the people come to God and sit before him "in sack cloth and ashes" to show their repentance and to seek his forgiveness. | | | May these ashes be for us a sign of our mortality and penitence and a reminder that only by your gracious gift are we given eternal life; through Jesus Christ our Saviour. | | | In Bible times it was common for people who were mourning to dress in sackcloth and put ashes on their heads. |
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| | History of Ash Wednesday, the Beginning of Catholic LentCatholic Update February©2004 |
| | Although Ash Wednesday is not a Catholic holy day of obligation, it is an important part of the season of Lent. | | | The origin of the custom of using ashes in religious ritual is lost in the mists of pre-history, but we find references to the practice in our own religious tradition in the Old Testament. | | | The prophet Daniel pleaded for God to rescue Israel with sackcloth and ashes as a sign of Israel's repentance: "I turned to the Lord God, pleading in earnest prayer, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes" (Dn 9:3). |
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| | Annie's Ash Wednesday Page |
| | A priest or pastor blesses the ashes and uses them to mark a cross on the foreheads of worshipers. | | | Ashes also serve as a symbol of purification and penitence." | | | The day is observed by Western Christian churches, especially Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran churches. |
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| | Ash Wednesday |
| | The first day of Lent, on which ashes are blessed and used to mark the heads of the faithful as a sign of penance. | | | In the fourth century, public penitents wearing sackcloth were sprinkled with ashes as a sign of penitence. | | | As public penance was gradually discontinued, it became the custom for all the faithful to receive ashes (eleventh century) in beginning Lenten penance as preparation for Easter. |
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| | How to Observe Ash Wednesday - eHow.com |
| | Before the ashes are used, they are sprinkled with holy water, purified with incense and blessed with four ancient prayers. | | | Keep in mind that most Protestant denominations also distribute ashes on Ash Wednesday, though the ritual may vary slightly from church to church. | | | The celebrant of the mass receives ashes from another priest before beginning the rite for the congregation. |
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http://www.ehow.com/how_12837_observe-ash-wednesday.html
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| | Ash Wednesday (Lent II) |
| | This is why the priest says, as he imposes ashes on our foreheads, "Remember, man, that you are dust and to dust you will return" [Genesis 3:19] or Turn away from sin and be faithful to the gospel. | | | During the early centuries of the Church only persons who had committed grave sins received ashes and were asked to do public penance which usually lasted until Holy Thursday when they were reconciled to the Church through confession and the reception of Holy Communion. | | | The custom, as early as the fourth century, was to "quarantine" (from the word for "forty") or separate the penitents from the rest of the community during the forty days of Lent. |
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| | Ash Wednesday - 24-7 Talkback |
| | Sitting is ashes as a mark of shame is in the bible, Phill. | | | Does the Catholic church find its practice of applying ashes 40 days before Easter from scripture or church tradition? | | | But actually (unlike altar-calls) Lent, ashes and fasting are scriptural. |
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http://www.24-7talkback.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=debate&Number=162553&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=0&fpart=all
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| | Why ashes on Ash Wednesday? |
| | It is most appropriate on Ash Wednesday, when we begin a period of sober reflection, self-examination, and spiritual redirection. | | | Therefore, the first day of Lent in the western Church is always a Wednesday. | | | In the western Church, we skip over the Sundays when we count the days of Lent, because Sunday is always the joyful celebration of the Resurrection. |
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| | Holy Comforter : Sermon |
| | Using ashes as an outward sign of repentance is an ancient practice dating from Biblical times. | | | The dust from which we came and to which we return is the rich earth that sustains all life as we know it, however, dry weightless, annoying dust has no identity, and thus the ancient Lenten reminder does not call us by name, but simply says, "Remember that you are dust." | | | The Cross and the Resurrection are pivotal points of our entire Christian Year, and they dominate in a special way, the season, which immediately precedes them. |
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| | "Ash Wednesday Homily" |
| | Related, and equally important is the fact that we aren’t dead yet – so there is more living for us to do – which means we have more chances to live the life we’ve got left in us with a different, hopefully more godly disposition and passion. | | | What we’re going to do tonight used to be done primarily by Roman Catholics, but today, more and more denominations are claiming this important ritual called the “imposition of ashes” as their own. | | | Enter this season of Lent clean-faced, or smeared with ashes – whatever helps you to see beyond where you are right now to who you are, to whose you are, and to where you are going as a disciple of Jesus Christ. |
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| | Bunnie Diehl: If you don't like it, just go away: Ash Wednesday |
| | I love the church calendar and the practices of Ash Wednesday. | | | I certainly didn't mean to imply that those who practice Ash Wednesday are any more imperfect than the rest of us imperfect sinners. | | | At a church that observes Ash WEdnesday in the first place? |
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| | Amazon.com: Ash Wednesday (1973) : Video |
| | Indeed "Ash Wednesday" is a literal feast for the eyes in so many ways. | | | Gay men have treasured this unabashed tribute to the once phenomenal beauty of la Liz since "Ash Wednesday" came out in l973. | | | I unequivocally fell in love with La Divinity Liz at a tender age, seeing her not in National Velvet or A Place in the Sun, Cleopatra or even Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
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| | Ash Wednesday (Protestant, Roman Catholic) |
| | On Ash Wednesday, a priest or pastor marks a cross on the forehead of parishoners. | | | This ritual is blessed with a passage from Genesis 3:19: "for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." The ashes symbolize repentance and purification. | | | Ash Wednesday marks the first day of Lent in the Western Christian liturgical year. |
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| | Touchstone Magazine - Mere Comments: Ash Wednesday: An Observation |
| | And at half past five o’clock those I saw weren’t all who had or would attend a ritual of ash imposition and solemn prayers. | | | And another question: What are these ministers and priests teaching all of these ash bearers? | | | They certainly didn’t represent all those who profess faith in Christ. |
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| | Ash Wednesday 2000 |
| | As you apply the ashes to each person's forehead, you may say, "Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return," or "Return to God with all your heart," or other appropriate words. | | | A resource kit prepared by The Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches for Ash Wednesday | | | Invite participants to remain in prayer and to depart as they wish. |
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| | Ash Wednesday Reviews |
| | The ghosts aren't just spirits of the dead, they represent all of the past sins committed by the people of the town, and serve to remind them that no matter how deeply the past may appear to be buried, a day of reckoning will come for them. | | | Addresses for Lent and Good Friday: Containing sermons for Ash Wednesday, the Sundays of Lent, addresses on the seven last words and Easter day (Heroes of the nations) | | | We traded books and I have to say it was by far the best book I've read in the past year. |
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| | Remember, lest we forget this Ash Wednesday - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM |
| | This is regarded as a symbol of penance as ashes is used in this manner in the Bible by Job, Daniel and others. | | | They are ways of proclaiming that Jesus cannot and will not be forgotten. | | | The annual season of Easter is upon us and during this season, we recall the sacrifice of the Son of God for the sins of whole humanity. |
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| | The Assemblies Website - Current Assemblies |
| | Ask a child (whose religious tradition is compatible with what is to come - and with no fringe!) to come up to the front. | | | A local church may let you have some, or contact a specialist religious supplier. | | | People still go to church on Ash Wednesday to be 'ashed'. |
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| | Ash Wednesday |
| | Bishop Katharine: On Ash Wednesday I worshiped with Bishop Joseph Kanuku and a congregation so new that it had never observed that special day before. | | | Most people in the congregation had had to leave work in order to attend the midday service, so everyone was surprised at how many were there. | | | The worship service took place in a small building that will eventually be the vicarage for St. Mary's, Kangundo. |
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| | Ash Wednesday at UPC |
| | This will not be your “run of the mill” Ash Wednesday service and all are encouraged to attend as we spiritually prepare ourselves to enter this season of reconnecting with God. | | | Worship during Lent will focus on the “mini-resurrections” Christ makes possible in our lives as we journey toward the resurrection experience on Easter Sunday. | | | The Lenten season begins on Ash Wednesday, February 9 |
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| | Ash Wednesday |
| | The Priest says, "Remember, O man, that thou art dust and unto dust shalt thou return." Ashes are preserved from the previous year's Palm Sunday in which palm leaves are burned. | | | is the first day of Lent and is signified by the application of an ash cross placed on the forehead by the Priest to the penitent. |
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| | Ash Wednesday |
| | The Ash Wednesday fires claimed 75 lives in total, 47 in Victoria and 28 in South Australia The largest number of lives were lost in the Upper Beaconsfield fire with 20 deaths. | | | Most of the major Ash Wednesday fires were controlled on the day, some in two to eight hours, others in a couple of days. | | | The CFA's "Community Fireguard" program has been developed to assist people living in fire risk areas to take responsibility for their own fire safety, through developing ways to cope with the local fire threat to prevent loss of life and property. |
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| | Faith Streams |
| | Ash Wednesday and these 40 days of Lenten preparation often bring with them a lot of bad childhood baggage as well as a true invitation to wholeness and renewal. | | | The evangelical perspective on the death of Christ upon the cross is that it is rooted in God's loving will to redeem and reclaim all creation. | | | An Ash Wednesday Call To Prayer and Fasting for the Cause of Peace - 2003 |
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| | Holiday Insights : Ash Wednesday |
| | It means that we came from dust and we shall return to dust, referring to our earthly bodies, not our souls. | | | Ash Wednesday is the first day of the Christian season of Lent and a sign of penitence.. | | | On Ash Wednesday, Christians go to mass and receive ashes on their foreheads in the sign of the cross. |
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| | Sensory Overload: Ash Wednesday Thought ~ |
| | You know Ash Wednesday is not really a Holy Day of Obligation? | | | If a messiah speaks in the desert and no one hears him do you still have a religion? | | | And I am in love with the revolution. |
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| | Dates of Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday |
| | The date of Easter given here is the date used by the western Christian churches. | | | Ash Wednesday is 46 days before Easter Sunday. | | | For information on how the date of Easter is determined, see The Date of Easter in FAQ. |
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| | Blog, Jvstin Style: Ire #11: Ash Wednesday |
| | By sacrificing and fasting and the like, you are purifiying yourself and making yourself more receptive and more able to appreciate the Passion, and the Resurrection. | | | Ash Wednesday, for the uninitiated, is the beginning of the forty days of Lent which precede Easter Sunday. | | | Ash Wednesday is a somber day, where many sacrifice something prized until the Easter holiday arrives. |
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| | Barnes & Noble.com - Ash Wednesday -- Edward Burns - DVD - Wide Screen |
| | Some people have spotted someone who looks a lot like Sean wandering around the neighborhood, and Moran, who doesn't forget a grudge, begins scouring the neighborhood in search of Sean, while Francis has worries of his own about Sean, since his relationship with Grace has started to move beyond simple family friendship. | | | It takes place between sunrise and sunset on Ash Wednesday, 1983 -- three years to the day after the murder of young bartender Sean Sullivan (Elijah Wood) by thugs from the vicious Moran gang who were plotting to kill Sean’s older brother. | | | That sibling, Francis (Burns), has spent the intervening period putting his criminal past behind him and looking after Sean’s widow (Rosario Dawson) and infant son. |
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