Ash Wednesday is the first day of lent before easter, according to the Christian calender. The date is dependant on the date of Easter so it changes every year. On this day, the priest dips his thumb into blessed ashes and marks a cross on the partisipant's foreheads. The ashes are created from burning the remains of the palms used on Palm Sunday from the previous year. Then holy water is spread over the ashes and sterilized with insense. As the priest does this, he says "Remember man that thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return."
Monday, October 15, 2007
Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday is the first day of lent before easter, according to the Christian calender. The date is dependant on the date of Easter so it changes every year. On this day, the priest dips his thumb into blessed ashes and marks a cross on the partisipant's foreheads. The ashes are created from burning the remains of the palms used on Palm Sunday from the previous year. Then holy water is spread over the ashes and sterilized with insense. As the priest does this, he says "Remember man that thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return."
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It was interseting to read what the priest says as they rub ashes on your forehead, because I never knew what they were saying when they were rubbing ashes on your forehead, and I always wondered what they were saying.
Hailey C.
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