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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can always ask “How was mass?” If you notice they have their ashes [/quote]dont say this. Bc not everyone is Catholic.  Other denominations like Methodists and Presbyterians etc also get ashes but they attend ‘services’[/quote]

In this country, a religious sister (pretty much a nun, the distinction is subtle) who visits on this Good Friday (Orthodox Ash Wednesday is a different week) to distribute ashes is Catholic.

So, OP could get away with "how was mass?"[/quote]

Would you say "how was Mass?"  as a friendly greeting on Sundays?  If not, please don't do it for ash wednesday.[/quote]

If I saw a religious sister, or someone else I knew to be a religious Catholic, who I knew was coming from mass, yeah I might.  It's called making polite conversation.

We see my IL's on Sunday.  Most weeks we go to Mass with them, but sometimes we might go to different ones (e.g. if my kid has a morning soccer game so we go to Saturday mass).  If I know they went to Mass and I see them on Sunday?  Yeah, I'd say "how was mass?  Who was preaching?  What hymns did you sing?  Oh, I like that one."

I live a block from our church, so if I know you go to my church, and I see you on Sunday morning, walking away from church, in your church clothes, with the bulletin in your hand?  I might ask you too!

I wouldn't say that to someone I didn't know went to mass.  So, I wouldn't say it to someone with ashes unless I knew they were Catholic, and I wouldn't say it to a Catholic person on Sunday unless I know they went.  Because I'm not looking to either presume Catholicism, or to shame someone who might not have gone.  But those don't apply here.  [/quote]

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