Will/did you go to Mass for Ash Wednesday?

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Chris Jacobsen:
Ash Wednesday is not a holy day of obligation.
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That’s already been stated by several posters. Does it carry more authority now that you’ve said it? 🙂
 
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Timidity:
That’s already been stated by several posters. Does it carry more authority now that you’ve said it? 🙂
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LOL!

Yes, I will definitely be going, I wouldn’t miss it for the world! 🙂
 
I will try to go… I have work, have to finish an essay, then go to class… notto mention I slept late by accident and missed 3 hours of work… ay yi yi!
 
This is probably a very cynical thing to think / say, but it’s my theory that Ash Wednesday has such a high turnout not just because of the novelty of something different in the Mass, but also because you have a physical symbol smack dab in the middle of your forehead for everyone to see once you leave Mass. It’s sad to think, but I’m afraid it may be pride that’s behind the high attendance.

Are you relieved from abstinence and fast once you attend Mass and receive the ashes & Eucharist? I’m just wondering.

Sorry if I brought anyone down with my cynicism. To answer the question, I haven’t absolutely made up my mind, but I think I will attend this evening. I believe the Stations of the Cross will be observed tonight. I’ve always been interested in that devotion, but have I never participated in the past.
 
BeeSweet!:
This is probably a very cynical thing to think / say, but it’s my theory that Ash Wednesday has such a high turnout not just because of the novelty of something different in the Mass, but also because you have a physical symbol smack dab in the middle of your forehead for everyone to see once you leave Mass. It’s sad to think, but I’m afraid it may be pride that’s behind the high attendance.

Are you relieved from abstinence and fast once you attend Mass and receive the ashes & Eucharist? I’m just wondering.

Sorry if I brought anyone down with my cynicism. To answer the question, I haven’t absolutely made up my mind, but I think I will attend this evening. I believe the Stations of the Cross will be observed tonight. I’ve always been interested in that devotion, but have I never participated in the past.
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No you are not relieved of abstinance and fast.
 
BeeSweet!:
This is probably a very cynical thing to think / say, but it’s my theory that Ash Wednesday has such a high turnout not just because of the novelty of something different in the Mass, but also because you have a physical symbol smack dab in the middle of your forehead for everyone to see once you leave Mass. It’s sad to think, but I’m afraid it may be pride that’s behind the high attendance.
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Perhaps so - but if such a person listened carefully to the Gospel, they might think again.

Mike
 
BeeSweet!:
This is probably a very cynical thing to think / say, but it’s my theory that Ash Wednesday has such a high turnout not just because of the novelty of something different in the Mass, but also because you have a physical symbol smack dab in the middle of your forehead for everyone to see once you leave Mass. It’s sad to think, but I’m afraid it may be pride that’s behind the high attendance.
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Hmmmm…I suppose that depends where you are. Does anyone get ashes sprinkled on the heads rather then placed in the form of a cross on the forehead?

And how many people actually wash the ashes off? I was taught that you couldn’t- they had to come off by themselves.
 
I didn’t think that Ash Wednesday was a holy day of obligation…?! We were told here it’s not. They will distribute ashes at the weekend masses, but had 2 services on Ash Wednesday, too. I went in the morning with the kids, but as far as I understood it, it’s not a day of obligation.:confused:
Angel Bradford:
I never miss a holy day of obligation!😃
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I hate to admit it, but I did wipe them off yesterday. Our pastor made it sound like that we shouldn’t be prancing around showing the ashes off. You know, the Gospel reading about the hypocrites standing in public, praying and fasting…It was the first time I wiped them off, never did it before, it felt weird. I should’ve asked Father when I went to confession if that was ok +sigh+, now do i have to go to confession again?
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AJV:
And how many people actually wash the ashes off? I was taught that you couldn’t- they had to come off by themselves.
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Well there WAS that Bible verse about hypocrites, but I doubt any of us were sitting in mass feeling good about ourselves for getting ashes :confused: I know I certainly wasn’t.

And it’s not like I discuss religion with others much in my workaday life, so I don’t get that many opportunities otherwise to ‘put the light on the lampstand so that it lights up the whole house’ as another Bible verse puts it.
 
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