Ash Wednesday

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I believe that it is evil to deny us the Eucharist on Ash Wednesday.

Jesus is love and forgiveness, even if Original Sin is true (which I believe is a crooked doctrine anyway).

Our strength is taken for a day: we will all be the most susceptible to Satan tomorrow. Beware, and good luck!
 
carlysrose said:
I believe that it is evil to deny us the Eucharist on Ash Wednesday.

Jesus is love and forgiveness, even if Original Sin is true (which I believe is a crooked doctrine anyway).

Our strength is taken for a day: we will all be the most susceptible to Satan tomorrow. Beware, and good luck!
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Who is denying anyone Eucharist on Ash Wednesday? :confused:

Original Sin is a “crooked doctrine”??

Are you sure your are Catholic?

~Liza
 
Forget it, it’s obvious you haven’t before.

Might as well go tomorrow, see for yourself.
 
Ash Wednesday is a Mass and they give out ashes during the Mass. Im not sure what you mean.
 
I’ve never heard of a parish not offering Mass on Ash Wednesday.
 
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Forget it, it’s obvious you haven’t before.

Might as well go tomorrow, see for yourself.
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I’m wondering if you’ve been before. Ash Wednesday is always a Mass and the ashes are distributed at the end. Not sure what you’re thinking of…
 
I suppose it could be that the OP is getting mixed up with the extra services that might be put on which aren’t Mass. In our parish,. for example, we have three Masses that day, but will also have ashes given as part of the Novena in the evening.
 
?? Do you receive the Eucharist every day? Because I don’t. I only go on Sunday. So far the devil hasn’t snatched me up… 🤷
 
carlysrose said:
I believe that it is evil to deny us the Eucharist on Ash Wednesday.

Jesus is love and forgiveness, even if Original Sin is true (which I believe is a crooked doctrine anyway).

Our strength is taken for a day: we will all be the most susceptible to Satan tomorrow. Beware, and good luck!
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I have never seen the ashes distributed at anything other than a Mass that also had standard Communion. So I don’t know what provoked the thought that the Eucharist is somehow denied to us on Ash Wednesday. That certainly isn’t true anywhere I’ve ever been.
 
It is possible that the OP lives in a priestless parish and can’t go to Mass. Where I used to live there was a sister as hospital chaplain. Of course she couldn’t say Mass, but she gave ashes to anyone who requested them.

She gave me holy Communion every day when I was hospitalised. One cannot always depend on a priest to be there, esp in rural southern communities where Catholics and priests are scarce.

I have a friend who works at the same hospital and I am told it’s like pulling hens teeth to get a priest to give the last rites. But this in just one town, I’m sure that’s not true everywhere.

But still we have a clergy shortage and many of the priests are aging rapidly.
 
It is true that some parishes may offer liturgies where ashes are distributed that are not Masses and where communion is also not distributed.

This is not by any means unique to Ash Wednesday unfortunately - some parishes some weeks are not able to offer even Saturday evening or Sunday Mass. 🤷
 
Ash Wednesday is usually a Mass, as stated above.

You DO realize, strange as it seems, that it is NOT a Holy Day of Obligation, don’t you? We’re encouraged to go, but there’s no sin in not going, nor in not receiving Communion, nor in not receiving ashes.
 
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We receive ashes, not the bread of life.
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I’m not sure how it works in your parish, but in mine we have ashes and the Eucharist at the Ash Wednesday Mass. I have never been to an Ash Wednesday Mass that didn’t have both.
 
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Why do you think anyone is denying us the Eucharist on Ash Wednesday? :confused:
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You still have the Eucharist on Wednesday, just as you have the Eucharist on Monday, and Friday, or anyother day for that matter. Just because a person doesn’t see the Eucharist or taste the Eucharist does not me they do have the Eucharist. The whole universe spins like great wheel and the Eucharist is the spoke, like a giant haystack and tiny, impercieveable needle. As long as there is one man who is a priest in the world you will always have the Eucharist. Don’t be afraid or lose hope. The devil can’t do you any harm unless you intend him to harm you first. In a lonely valley somewhere in Vermont there is a handful of hermits carrying about the business of showering grace upon you. The world goes by and they notice it not. This does not mean that the world doesn’t exist. How much more we can say about the Eucharist. A tiny speck or crumb is more God than the world could ever be world.

Oh yes… and if you think that Original Sin is a crooked idea, best examine thyself before admitting yourself to the Eucharist. Swallow your pride before you swallow God.
 
carlysrose said:
Forget it, it’s obvious you haven’t before.

Might as well go tomorrow, see for yourself.
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Um yeah - every year. And I always receive Holy Communion on Ash Wednesday.

I still have no idea what you are talking about. No one is depriving anyone of anything. If you are being told you can’t receive Holy Communion on Ash Wednesday, it must be something unique about the situation at your parish, because that certainly is not the norm.

~Liza
 
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