When did your parish distribute ashes: After the Prayers of the Faithful or After the Dismissal

[Castello]

After the Homily - exactly the way the book says

We also got a good strong sermon about people who appear once a year to get ashes Go Father!!!

 

[5Loaves]

I was at the Dominican Priory. Ashes were distributed before the start of the Mass after chanting the Hours. Happily it was the usual number of folks there, not the standing room only at every Latin Church. I do appreciate that people come out from the wood work to get their ashes. I just am glad I had another option. I didn’t receive them myself. Great Lent begins for us on Monday.

Dear friends,

I appreciate all the helpful comments about how to remove the ashes from one’s thumb. But at the same time, please let’s not derail this thread by getting us off-topic. It might be a helpful topic of discussion here at CAF for people to swap ideas and experiences, but just not within this particular thread.

I’m glad it came up. I trim the wicks on our olive oil lampadas after every Liturgy. I’ve tried using tweezers and it’s not good. So I use my thumb nail, and have permanently black under that nail. I’m going to try what several folks have suggested and hope it improves my thumb.

 

[Tarpeian_Rock]

Just an idle curiosity thing, perhaps, but why are the ashes given via the thumb, in particular? Why aren’t they drawn on with the index finger, for instance?

I think if you were to attend a Baptism or someone being anointed in the Sacrament of the Sick, you’d see that the oils used to anoint the baby or the sick person were administered with the thumb, which the priest had rubbed into the cotton in the appropriate oil stock. It’s the most natural way to do it.

 

[anp1215]

I was at the Dominican Priory. Ashes were distributed before the start of the Mass after chanting the Hours. Happily it was the usual number of folks there, not the standing room only at every Latin Church. I do appreciate that people come out from the wood work to get their ashes. I just am glad I had another option. I didn’t receive them myself. Great Lent begins for us on Monday.

I’m glad it came up. I trim the wicks on our olive oil lampadas after every Liturgy. I’ve tried using tweezers and it’s not good. So I use my thumb nail, and have permanently black under that nail. I’m going to try what several folks have suggested and hope it improves my thumb.

I liked that article.

 

[CatholicZ09]

Our priest was originally going to distribute the ashes after the homily, but he forgot about them (I don’t know how; it was Ash Wednesday after all ), so we got the ashes after the Prayer after Communion. The organist was all mixed up thinking that the ashes were being distributed after the homily. I asked Father what was going on, and he said, “I made a boo-boo.”

 

[5Loaves]

I liked that article.

I thought it was remarkable coming from the secular media, particularly NPR. His blog which is linked to in the article, is also worth looking at. He includes TS Eliot’s “conversion” poem “Ash-Wednesday”.

 

[5Loaves]

I was at the Dominican Priory.

The OPs were all in their lovely black cappas and I figured it was an Ash Wednesday thing. But when I was back there again today I found all the novices at least again in cappas. So I asked and have learned another great thing about Great Lent-- our beloved OPs throughout Lentcappas.