The sacraments are perceptible signs (words and actions) “of the hidden reality of salvation” (CCC 774) that use elements of material nature to make visible the invisible, realizing “effectively the grace they signify” (CCC 1084). In them, “nature is taken up by God to become a means of mediating supernatural life” (LS 235). They also show the eschatological dimension of creation, because “all the good which exists here will be taken up into the heavenly feast”[1]. Symbolic actions, such as the imposition of ashes at the beginning of the Lenten season, fully show the bond that exists between our sins and the cry of the earth. One of the expressions indicated for this Rite says: “Remember that you are dust and dust you will return” (Gn 3:19). In addition to reminding us that we too are dust of the earth, an integral part of nature, that ash can express also the cry of the earth, burned and reduced to dust by consumerism and human selfishness. The celebration of reconciliation will be even more significant if signs and symbols of this type are properly used. In fact, some Protestant churches have already begun to use them in this sense[2]. The sacrament…