Quick question on Ash Wednesday

[Wolniewicz]

Hello all!

I hope this is the right location, if I posted it in the wrong place please forgive me.

So quick background, I grew up Anglican/ Episcopal, became Catholic last fall, family didn’t, but I still go to services with them on important days (christmas, easter ect.) I still go to catholic masses on those days so don’t worry. Just I’m still my parents son and I see it as my responsibility to show them that I love them and support them in their christian lives.

But my main question is this: I read that Ash Wednesday isn’t a holy day of obligation, and I hope to make it if I can, but I’m a busy college student at CU Boulder in Engineering so sometimes making daily mass, or things I’m not obligated to go too can be hard in the middle of the week. But right accross from the engineering center is the Anglican/ Episcopal church I grew up at and my family (from grandmother to parents and sisters) will be going to some services through out the day. I was invited to join them, and I was wondering if I were to go if it would be a sin to have ashes from the Episcopal church put on my forhead. I know that I shouldn’t recieve any sacraments, but can I recieve sacramentals?

Just thought I’d ask, any answers are appreciated

God Bless

 

[AniCS]

The CU Bolder campus has three Ash Wednesday services: 7:30 am 5: 00pm 7:30 pm. You could probably fit in one of these.

 

[Contra_Mundum_1]

I don’t know it going to an Episcopal church for ashes would be a sin, but we are asked not to attend protestant services. Since you are a new catholic I think it would be best if you avoid them as much as you can.

 

[Gorgias]

we are asked not to attend protestant services.

Umm… we are?

It’s true that we can’t go to a non-Catholic service and expect it to fulfill our Sunday obligation…

And it’s true that we never want to give off the impression that a Catholic Mass is in any way “equivalent” to the services of any arbitrary non-Catholic Christian denomination…

but outside those considerations… there’s something out there that officially says, “don’t go”? Do you have a reference to it?

Thanks!

G.

 

[Wolniewicz]

I don’t know it going to an Episcopal church for ashes would be a sin, but we are asked not to attend protestant services. Since you are a new catholic I think it would be best if you avoid them as much as you can.

That isn’t true, we are just told we need to go to sunday mass all the time too. I had a lot of talks with priests and my RCIA director on this subject, and they thought it a good idea that I still join my family on important christian holidays.

Secondly I converted from being in the Anglican Communion, I’m not a neophyte because I was already baptized. If your worried about me leaving the Catholic faith from going to Anglican churches I would read up a little more on why Anglicans do become Catholic, and how the Popes have set up Ordinariates such as the Anglican Use parishes.