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I am taken back by people every year when I seen parishioners wearing the ash mark on their forehead.

To all those who celebrate Catholicism, Good Ash Wednesday to you and yours.

I did not know until today the mark is to be worn until you attend mass.


I love this time of year when on Fridays the local Knights Of Columbus puts on the fish fries! It's kinda like St. Patrics Day around here, everyone is Catholic on Fridays. Check them out in your neighborhood. Good food, good people, and they have BEER! A little slice of home town Americana.
 
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No showers? That's always been my question that no one will answer (kind of like how really fat people ...errr....clean up after using the restroom. No one will answer).
 
SkyHog said:
No showers? That's always been my question that no one will answer (kind of like how really fat people ...errr....clean up after using the restroom. No one will answer).
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I can't comment on the bathroom clean-up...I doubt that is the same class as Ash Wednesday ashes.

My understanding is the ashes are worn until they come off naturally...in practice, this seems to be the next time someone cleans their face or they bathe.
 
Cap'n Jack said:
I can't comment on the bathroom clean-up...I doubt that is the same class as Ash Wednesday ashes.

My understanding is the ashes are worn until they come off naturally...in practice, this seems to be the next time someone cleans their face or they bathe.
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I meant no offense. I have seen some people with the ash on their face from Wednesday until Sunday.

Maybe shower but don't wash the face?
 
SkyHog said:
I meant no offense. I have seen some people with the ash on their face from Wednesday until Sunday.

Maybe shower but don't wash the face?
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I've seen that too...some do clean everything but the ashes. In any case, ashes are a sacramental, not a sacrament. Any Christian can go to any Christian church that ashes, and get ashed. What is important is the internal repententance rather than the display of the ashes.
 
I'm Lutheran. I'll be getting "ashed" at the evening services tonight. They'll be worn until I wash up for bed.
 
Christians do this, not just Catholics, got it.

I still like the Catholic Friday fish fries though, and go most Fridays from now until Passover? Is that when they quit? :rofl: (I'm just being silly, no offense intended to anyone)


I need a program to keep all these traditions straight, but I love the food part of all of them! :yesnod:
 
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Geico266 said:
I am taken back by people every year when I seen parishioners wearing the ash mark on their forehead.

To all those who celebrate Catholicism, Good Ash Wednesday to you and yours.

I did not know until today the mark is to be worn until you attend mass.


I love this time of year when on Fridays the local Knights Of Columbus puts on the fish fries! It's kinda like St. Patrics Day around here, everyone is Catholic on Fridays. Check them out in your neighborhood. Good food, good people, and they have BEER! A little slice of home town Americana.
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Thank you, Geico! I got my ashes at noon mass at Old St. Mary's in Milwaukee, a few blocks from my office. When I lived in Illinois, the KofC or the VFW were the places to go for fish on Fridays. But here in Milwaukee, nearly EVERY restaurant has Friday fish fries, year 'round, not just in lent. It's awesome. Well, not for the cholesterol, but still awesome.

The point in abstaining from meat on Fridays during lent is to sacrifice. I always consider it a bonus, as I love fish. Heck, if I'm on the road, the old McDonalds fillet 'o fish (query whether that is really fish) is still a tasty little sacrifice.

I'm not sure about the point on how long the ashes are worn. I think it is just until it's worn off naturally, or you shower the next day.
 
I believe that the imposition of ashes is common to churches with a formal- or liturgical- tradition, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican (Episcopalian,) and some Lutheran parishes. My ashy smudge will be washed off before I go to bed tonight.
 
Haven't seen any ash, probably because everyone is too bundled up against the wind, cold, snow, freezing drizzle and other various foul weather.
 
Geico266 said:
I am taken back by people every year when I seen parishioners wearing the ash mark on their forehead.

To all those who celebrate Catholicism, Good Ash Wednesday to you and yours.

I did not know until today the mark is to be worn until you attend mass.


I love this time of year when on Fridays the local Knights Of Columbus puts on the fish fries! It's kinda like St. Patrics Day around here, everyone is Catholic on Fridays. Check them out in your neighborhood. Good food, good people, and they have BEER! A little slice of home town Americana.
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fwiw...I went to worship at the local seminary this morning and got ashed...wiped them off when I finally remembered to...when I finally saw myself in the mirror...AND I'm going to my local church service again tonight...do I get twice the repentance points for doing it twice? :D

If you get ashed and wanna prove to the world you did your duty and went to Ash Wednesday service, keep the ashes on as long as you like...:) I choose to wipe mine off whenever I decide to...as someone pointed out...it's the meaning behind the ashes, not the ashes themselves that are memorable and noteworthy.

Happy Lent!...oxymoron...a time of fasting, reflection and penance...:rolleyes2::smile:

And, no, as many of you know I am not Catholic.
 
astanley said:
IIRC, from CCD as a kid, only Evangelical and Pentacostalist do not participate in Ash Wednesday, but I don't remember for sure.

Cheers,

-Andrew
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Southern, Independent, and most American Baptists, Anabaptists (Mennonite, Amish, et al), some Presbyterians, some Methodists, Wesleyans, nearly all pentecostal and fundamental churches do not observe Lent.
 
dmccormack said:
Southern, Independent, and most American Baptists, Anabaptists (Mennonite, Amish, et al), some Presbyterians, some Methodists, Wesleyans, nearly all pentecostal and fundamental churches do not observe Lent.
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Thanks Dan! I appreciate the extra history lesson.

Cheers,

-Andrew
 
nddons said:
Thank you, Geico! I got my ashes at noon mass at Old St. Mary's in Milwaukee, a few blocks from my office.
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Ah, Wisconsin fish fries during Lent! Now THERE are some great memories.

I spent my childhood in West Bend, not far from Stan's Milwaukee. We always got carry-out lake perch on Fridays (pre-Vatican II), and occasionally would go to Hon-E-Kor (in nearby Kewaskum, WI) for lake perch served by real, live waitresses, most of whom were related to me somehow. (The "Hon" in "Hon-E-Kor" stood for "Honeck" -- the "Kor" stood for "Korth".)

The worst part about living in Iowa has been the utter lack of edible seafood. "Lake Perch" is unknown, and "Red Lobster" (*shudder*) is considered to be "fine seafood". Augh! Our local Eagles club puts on a fish fry every Friday during lent, but it's (*sob!*) COD. :mad2:

Oh, what I wouldn't give for some fresh Lake Perch, deep-fried to a golden perfection. (Another great reason to go to Oshkosh, by the way -- several local restaurants serve lake -- NOT ocean -- perch!)
 
We had a nice lady seem to get overindulgent with the ashes today if that is possible. Instead of getting just a light fingertip smudge, somehow she got the whole bowl plastered across her forehead. Trying to figure that one out - if a little is good......?
 
Let'sgoflying! said:
We had a nice lady seem to get overindulgent with the ashes today if that is possible. Instead of getting just a light fingertip smudge, somehow she got the whole bowl plastered across her forehead. Trying to figure that one out - if a little is good......?
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She was in a mood.
 
Jay Honeck said:
Ah, Wisconsin fish fries during Lent! Now THERE are some great memories.

I spent my childhood in West Bend, not far from Stan's Milwaukee. We always got carry-out lake perch on Fridays (pre-Vatican II), and occasionally would go to Hon-E-Kor (in nearby Kewaskum, WI) for lake perch served by real, live waitresses, most of whom were related to me somehow. (The "Hon" in "Hon-E-Kor" stood for "Honeck" -- the "Kor" stood for "Korth".)

The worst part about living in Iowa has been the utter lack of edible seafood. "Lake Perch" is unknown, and "Red Lobster" (*shudder*) is considered to be "fine seafood". Augh! Our local Eagles club puts on a fish fry every Friday during lent, but it's (*sob!*) COD. :mad2:

Oh, what I wouldn't give for some fresh Lake Perch, deep-fried to a golden perfection. (Another great reason to go to Oshkosh, by the way -- several local restaurants serve lake -- NOT ocean -- perch!)
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We lived in the Quad Cities for 8 years, and I think the lack of any sort of ethnic food was dissapointing.

As for fish, I'm not a huge fan of catfish, but we used to get decent catfish at a joint called the Enchanged Inn in Blue Grass, Iowa. It would flood out whenever the Mississippi flooded, which might have been the source of their catfish. :eek:
 
I didn't know about the Ash thing until high school. One day i showed up and noticed one of the cute popular girls had a smudge right in the middle of her forehead. I, of course, chuckled inwardly and wondered when someone would tell her she had a big smudge on her forehead. How embarassing for her. Then I saw someone else, same smudge, and thought, "Hey, now that's a weird coincidence." A few more like that and i figured something was up.

Unitarians do not smudge their foreheads.
 
Neither do Jews. But we're so used to you Gentiles doing silly things that it all blends into the background.
 
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Neither do Jews. But we're so used to you Gentiles doing silly things that it all blends into the background.
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:rofl: Now that is what I'm talkin about right there! :rofl:

Seriously, you need some good fish and beer, quite tastey.
 
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Geico266 said:
:rofl: Now that is what I'm talkin about right there! :rofl:

Seriously, you need some good fish and beer, quite tastey.
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I fry my own, and there are some tasty local brews (although nothing compared to the Belgian stuff I'll be quaffing this weekend).
 
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Geico266 said:
:rofl: Now that is what I'm talkin about right there! :rofl:

Seriously, you need some good fish and beer, quite tastey.
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steingar said:
I fry my own, and there are some tasty local brews (although nothing compared to the Belgian stuff I'll be quaffing this weekend.
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Or the German stuff I'm looking forward to next week.

OBTW, some Presbyterians do have an Ash Wednesday service.
 
Well, being descended of the Druid genetic line, we never paid much attention to these new-kid-on-the-block religions (much too young)...
As far as ashes on the forehead, we much prefer a good mid winter orgy where everyone gets their ashes hauled...

denny-o
 
nddons said:
We lived in the Quad Cities for 8 years, and I think the lack of any sort of ethnic food was dissapointing.
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The Iowa half of the Quad Cities should be deeded to Illinois, raising the IQ of both states in the process.


Trapper John
 
I was raised Episcopal, and we always had Ash Wednesday service. Mom and I went in the evening, got our ashes, and then went home and washed them off before bed.

These days I don't pay much attention to the major days outside of Easter and Christmas as I don't regularly attend Church anymore (never home on Sundays), so I'd forgotten that it was even Ash Wednesday. Oops...
 
dmccormack said:
Southern, Independent, and most American Baptists, Anabaptists (Mennonite, Amish, et al), some Presbyterians, some Methodists, Wesleyans, nearly all pentecostal and fundamental churches do not observe Lent.
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That may be Free Methodists. Our First United Methodist Church in Howell certainly does. We don't use ashes though. Just a service with communion. We then observe Lent as we are inspired to do.
 
bsdunek said:
That may be Free Methodists. Our First United Methodist Church in Howell certainly does. We don't use ashes though. Just a service with communion. We then observe Lent as we are inspired to do.
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Yep, some Methodists...:yesnod:

There are Free, United, Reformed, Episcopal, and Southern (AFAIK), so I'm sure some adhere to more liturgical forms...
 
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