Parents Oppose Ash Wednesday

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I’m 18 and in college, but I live at home currently. My parents oppose me wearing ashes today and are very anti Catholic in general. Is it “provocative” to still be wearing them at home as my dad claims, or should I continue to wear them until night as is generally practiced? Is it wrong for me to defy my parent’s wishes when I’m living with them like this?
 
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I’m 18 and in college, but I live at home currently. My parents oppose me wearing ashes today and are very anti Catholic in general. Is it “provocative” to still be wearing them at home as my dad claims, or should I continue to wear them until night as is generally practiced? Is it wrong for me to defy my parent’s wishes when I’m living with them like this?
 
If you’re still living under their roof, it’s best to keep the peace as best as you can.
 
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How many places are you posting this?
 
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Or even just wipe them away with a tissue because as forensics proves, particles remain even when there is no visible evidence of a substance.
 
You are 18, you can just not come home until later in the evening and take them off right before you go in )
 
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Parent’s home, parent’s rules. It’s okay to remove the ashes and in the spirit of “honoring thy mother and father” I would remove them.
 
So long as you’re living at home, I think you should do as your parents wish.
 
No one would tell me to take the ashes off … even my parents when I was younger … not that that ever happened to me … but something else did happen to me … when I was 19 I wanted to join the convent of the Sisters of St. Lucy Filippini … my mother went crazy … didn’t want me to … she even beat me up and threw me down a flight of stairs … I still joined the convent … eventually realizing it wasn’t for me I left the convent on October 13 … one year later on October 13 my mother died of lung cancer … I always thought it quite odd that she passed on the same day I had left the convent. Anyway, just saying … you have to do what’s right for you and the Lord … parents don’t get to tell you what to do once you’ve grown up.

And I do realize you are living in their home … but people are supposed to respect each other’s differences … and by respecting differences I mean your parents need to respect who you are … just as you would never tell them to go get ashes.
 
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I was also raised by anti-catholic parents. You will hopefully have many years to live your life under your own power.
Enjoy the fact that you are able to practice to some degree, at least.
 
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Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment .
 
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Why would you want to upset your parents by doing that when they are providing you with a roof over your head? is it that big of a sacrifice to ask that you don’t do that because it pushes their buttons?
 
Ashes on or off do not denote any more or less love of God. Ash wendesday is not a holy Day of Obligation, Ashes are not obligatory.
 
Very sneaky!!!

kurt1, learn the reasoning behind the practice, show them the biblical basis of the practice, explain that it is for humility and repentance, then let them ponder it.
 
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