Catholic Wrestlers Forced to Remove Ash Crosses

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Catholic Wrestlers Forced to Remove Ash Crosses

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Catholic high school wrestlers will have to remove ashes from their forehead when the state wrestling tournament begins Wednesday.

The start of this year’s competition falls on Ash Wednesday. Catholics typically apply ash crosses on their foreheads in observance of the first day of Lent.

But Iowa High School Athletic Association officials banned the practice for wrestlers when they hit the mat, saying the ash could get into an opponent’s eyes or mouths.

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It is only fair.

Plus i would worry about the boys themselves.

They would sweat very hard and some of the mixture of Ash and Sweat could get into their eye.
 
They should pull out. What comes first, their faith or the chance to have a wrestle?
 
Anybody remember “Chariots of Fire?” This remimds me of that movie. What a great testimony pulling out would be.

Ash Wednesday is not the day for sports.
 
I don’t see what the problem would be in removing the ashes, since Catholics (contrary to a popular myth) are not required to wear the ashes all day long.
 
latin_rite said:
They should pull out. What comes first, their faith or the chance to have a wrestle?
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Wrong attitude.

God gave them the strength and ability to wrestle, to work as a a team and to maybe win. They worked hard and they should throw that way for what?

You do not live life on your knees praying. You life live day by day doing the things you love and that God gave you the ability to do.

To even fight this contradicts the point of the speech at mass about how not to look like your fasting or bring attention to what you do.

Proving your faith is more important is the way you live you life not by fighting to keep ashes on your head just to show it to the world.

If thats more important to you, than you missed the point of mass on Wednesday
 
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. . .But Iowa High School Athletic Association officials banned the practice for wrestlers when they hit the mat, saying the ash could get into an opponent’s eyes or mouths.

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It does seem a reasonable, and established, requirement of the sport.
 
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Catholic Wrestlers Forced to Remove Ash Crosses
But Iowa High School Athletic Association officials banned the practice for wrestlers when they hit the mat, saying the ash could get into an opponent’s eyes or mouths.

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Using this logic, all the wrestlers should have to pass a dirt inspection before wrestling. Not to mention that ash in the eye couldn’t hurt more than sweat. I personally think that such a regulation is kind of dumb.
 
joeganshert said:
Using this logic, all the wrestlers should have to pass a dirt inspection before wrestling. Not to mention that ash in the eye couldn’t hurt more than sweat. I personally think that such a regulation is kind of dumb.
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See the linked article:
He said all wrestlers undergo a skin and nail check prior to competition.
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My apologies, I don’t know how I missed that? :confused:
I would say that as long as the rule applies to everyone, as it does, I would support it.
 
A few years ago on Ash Wednesday, the guys didn’t have a chance to go to church, so my dad came and did a service with the wrestlers and they got ashes from him (it was a Lutheran high school). I do believe they got to wrestle with the ashes. That was a few years ago, though.
 
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