How to let ashes wear off

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Anonymous wrote:This is so dependent on your personal faith. Have issues denying God in public? Wear them? Like to force your faith on other people? Wipe them off.

What?

Matthew 6:5. It's not rocket science.

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On Ash Wednesday this year, I was driving south on Wisconsin Avenue and noticed two priests on the corner of Tenleytown (by the metro) doing "Ashes to Go". Never seen that before (cradle Catholic).


I have, a few years ago, here in DC. I think it's something they hadn't thought of before, but receiving ashes needn't be part of a mass, so there's no restriction as to where they can be distributed. I guess you don't have to be catholic, or in a state of grace either.

My Episcopal church in Potomac does ashes to go. It's not just a catholic thing.

I think ashes to go is generally a Protestant “thing.” The Catholic Church frowns on the practice, and prefers that ashes be given as a part of mass except in special cases (home bound, etc.)

I always thought ashes were a Catholic thing. I’ve been Episcopal all my life and ashes are new to me and not in every church.

Ashes on Ash Wednesday, usually given during a mass, is a strongly Catholic tradition. “Ashes to go” is largely Protestant.

But definitely not most Protestants, just a minority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is so dependent on your personal faith. Have issues denying God in public? Wear them? Like to force your faith on other people? Wipe them off.

What?

Matthew 6:5. It's not rocket science.

Not rocket science, or even decipherable. Carry on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is so dependent on your personal faith. Have issues denying God in public? Wear them? Like to force your faith on other people? Wipe them off.

What?

Matthew 6:5. It's not rocket science.

Not rocket science, or even decipherable. Carry on.

Agree the original post is a bit tough to understand. But for the rest of you, Matthew 6.5 says hypocrites are the ones praying on street corners so everybody can see them. Instead, 6.6 says “But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is so dependent on your personal faith. Have issues denying God in public? Wear them? Like to force your faith on other people? Wipe them off.

What?

Matthew 6:5. It's not rocket science.

Not rocket science, or even decipherable. Carry on.

Agree the original post is a bit tough to understand. But for the rest of you, Matthew 6.5 says hypocrites are the ones praying on street corners so everybody can see them. Instead, 6.6 says “But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”

Exactly. It definitely became a "thing" to wear ashes more prominently as a Catholic and that's when I started to reject the whole thing. If you need to show other people your faith, you have most certainly lost your way.

[Anonymous]

Peter also denied Jesus three times before the cock crowed. Are you denying your connection to Jesus by rubbing off the ashes after you leave Mass?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Peter also denied Jesus three times before the cock crowed. Are you denying your connection to Jesus by rubbing off the ashes after you leave Mass?

No. That is in no way a position supported by the Catholic Church.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Peter also denied Jesus three times before the cock crowed. Are you denying your connection to Jesus by rubbing off the ashes after you leave Mass?

Seriously? No, I don't need to announce my connection to Jesus everywhere I go. God knows and that's enough for me. Man, the 80s really revved up Catholics and it's only gotten worse since then. It's okay to zip it and love Jesus. Trust me. Nowhere does it say: "politicize me for gain"

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Anonymous wrote:Peter also denied Jesus three times before the cock crowed. Are you denying your connection to Jesus by rubbing off the ashes after you leave Mass?

Seriously? No, I don't need to announce my connection to Jesus everywhere I go. God knows and that's enough for me. Man, the 80s really revved up Catholics and it's only gotten worse since then. It's okay to zip it and love Jesus. Trust me. Nowhere does it say: "politicize me for gain"

There are some very weakly catechized people on this thread who have made God over in their own image.

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I grew up in a heavily Catholic area of Philadelphia, and I remember lots of kids wearing ashes on their foreheads in school on Ash Wednesday. Now I live in the South and I don't think I've seen a soul with ashes in all of the years I've lived here.