# @canisiushs on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-03-06T00:36:30.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Canisius High School (@canisiushs) — https://gondola.cc/canisiushs

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“Let us humbly ask God our Father that He be pleased to bless, with the abundance of his grace, these ashes, which we will put on our heads in penitence.”
 
Our Ash Wednesday Liturgy was celebrated today by Assistant to the President Fr. Richard Zanoni, S.J., in Scaccia Auditorium.
 
Ash Wednesday marks the first day of Lent, a 40-day period of reflection and fasting before Easter, where worshippers receive ashes on their foreheads in the shape of a cross as a symbol of repentance and mortality.
 
Students participating in the Mass included: Arno Mbaiyo ’26 (First Reading, from the Book of Joel), Oliver Reynolds ’26 (Responsorial Psalm), and Patrick Cullinan ’27 (Second Reading, from the Second Letter of Paul to the Corinthians), as well as Rondel Fancher ’26 and Anthony Pepe ’26 (both read the Prayers of the Faithful). The crossbearer was Connor Jackson ’26, while the candlebearers were Matt Kreuzer ’26 and Gianni Latella ’26.
 
Students who administered ashes were Augustus Falvo ’25, Dylan Leong ’25, Michael Perez ’25, and David Romanovich ’25; serving as Eucharistic Ministers were Charlie Benz ’25, Jack Riley ’25, Bobby Dickey ’25, Matt Dionne ’25, Massimo Ciccarelli ’25 and Romanovich.
 
The concelebrants were President Fr. David Ciancimino, S.J., Director of Campus Ministry Fr. Chuck Frederico, S.J., Assistant to the Principal Fr. Edward Durkin, S.J., and special guest Fr. Jason Downer, S.J., a member of the CHS Board of Trustees and the superior of the Jesuit community in Buffalo. 
 
There are many more photos at our Facebook post.

Also see our video of Fr. Zanoni’s homily.

Families interested in the unique experiences offered through the CHS Campus Ministry program and the excellence only found in a Jesuit education at Canisius can learn more by reserving a spot at our Spring Open House on Sunday, April 27 via canisiushigh.org/openhouse

This place is special. Let us show you why.

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