Will you leave your ash on your forehead all day?

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It’s Ash Wednesday already here. I’ve been to Ash Wednesday Mass and received my ash.
Will I leave it on all day? That is the question. Will I go to my secular job with it still on?
 
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Depends on your comfort level. If you feel comfortable, leave them on. If they’re a distraction, wipe them off.
 
i will most likely attend the 7pm ash wednesday service; so the ashes will probably wind up on the pillow cover or in the the shower drain thursday morning
 
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I know you are “allowed” to wipe it off, but that thought never crosses my mind. I usually forget it’s even there.
 
I’m a school janitor so it wont matter much at all. If I had a suit and tie job and needed to look polished for customers, I might be tempted to wipe it off.
 
i would never “wipe off” the ashes once i’d’ve gotten them

if you go to the 7pm service available in most US parishes, what would be the point of doing that?

you’ve gotten the ashes, its time to go home & break your fast

why would you be thinking to “wipe off” the ashes ??
 
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I always leave the ashes on. It’s resulted in a number of conversations about the faith over the years.
My university chaplain reminded us on Monday that we are supposed to leave the ashes on as an outward sign.
 
It would be a test of our faith and witness as Christians but no one noticed mine unfort. 🙂
 
I work overnight, so they’ll be on my forehead from 9am mass until around noon when I go to sleep.
 
Three Persons did. And 7 Archangels. And one nasty devil too. And you when you looked in the mirror.
Twelve is a majority!
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Yes, but I’ll get mine at noon. Last year our new parochial vicar made the largest, darkest cross I’ve ever seen. It was something you couldn’t not notice.

Providentially last year a friend driving his daughter to school happened to see my wife in her car at a stoplight. His young daughter asked what was on my wife’s head (noticeable due to the especially large, dark cross). The friend, who is knowledgeable of Catholicism, explained Ash Wednesday. So you never know who’ll notice and as a result learn about the Faith.
 
I haven’t had a haircut in 6 months so my hair covers my forehead. Leaving it on but no one can see it.

I work near doctors, so seeing doctors with the cross on their foreheads is a happy occasion.
 
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I’m leaving them on.

The ashes under my thumbnail? That’s a different question.
 
In my parish, the priest sprinkles ashes on top of the head and doesn’t put it on your forehead. This is an ethnic parish and that is how it’s done in the old country, so that’s how he does it here.
 
I go to any early Mass and leave them on. Working in a parish office, I don’t get many curious looks. 😀
 
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