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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in a blue collar town where very few people did NOT go to church, and probably 75% was Catholic (we were Lutheran) and I swear I never heard of this thing with the ashes until the mid-80s (I was out of school by then but visiting in the same region) I saw people with these smudges on their foreheads and was perplexed and had to be told what this was about. Has this always been a tradition? (Maybe we had longish easter breaks and I just didn't see the Catholic kids with their ashes? Although I sense that other denominations have picked up the practice?) [/quote] Same, though I never saw this until college in the late 90s. I'm Methodist, attended regularly growing up, and had no idea that Ash Wednesday wasn't just a Catholic observance until a few years ago. Our DCUM-local Methodist church administers ashes at the Metro and has two services. I looked up my hometown church and they appear to have one service, in the evening. [/quote]
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