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    Ashes To Go



    Area clergy to offer 'Ashes To Go' Wednesday at Metra stations as Lent begins
    Three Anglican priests are among clergy who plan to make the religious rites of Ash Wednesday more accessible to busy commuters by offering blessed ashes Wednesday at Southland Metra stations.
    Marking one’s forehead with ashes in the form of a cross “reminds us that we are dust, and to dust we shall return,” said the Rev. Annette Mayer, rector of The Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration in Palos Park. “It increases our sense of our mortality.” (Yeah, well.. one could argue that being pressed past the safety line at a metro station by throngs of humanity impatient to get where they're going does much the same thing. )




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    Old news. Lol.

    I was crushing up charcoal briquettes in junior high and putting them in large pill bottle, then bringing them with me to the Catholic school I attended in the late sixties and 70s.
    It was mandatory to attend school mass on Ash Wednesday. We had to walk about 1/4 mile from the school to church.
    A dozen or so of us would just veer off in the wooded area and bushes instead of attending mass.
    We couldn't go back to class without ashes on our forehead because then we would be busted.

    So for $1/head(literally) Father Hawk would give you some "ashes" on your forehead. Hey, if they can pass a collection basket in church......
    Then we would blend in with the returning crowd after mass.

    Sigh... all good things must come to an end.
    And that happened the day i forgot to take the pill bottle out of my pants and it opened in the washing machine.
    Being a very religious woman, my mom was very unhappy with me and did a lot of praying for me.

    Only after she beat the Bejeebus out of me for about half an hour though.
    That woman sure believed severe punishment would save the soul.
    Standard punishment was kneeling in the corner in shorts on kernels of dry rice with your face to the wall for however long it took the condensation from your breath to to build on the corner wall and hit the floor.

    And do not get caught with your face away from the corner walls trying to get oxygen or she would come back with a belt and then let yo know she had seen you.
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    That’s pretty neat. Keep the tradition of the ceremony but make it accessible to all.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HawkTheSlayer View Post
    Old news. Lol.

    I was crushing up charcoal briquettes in junior high and putting them in large pill bottle, then bringing them with me to the Catholic school I attended in the late sixties and 70s.
    It was mandatory to attend school mass on Ash Wednesday. We had to walk about 1/4 mile from the school to church.
    A dozen or so of us would just veer off in the wooded area and bushes instead of attending mass.
    We couldn't go back to class without ashes on our forehead because then we would be busted.

    So for $1/head(literally) Father Hawk would give you some "ashes" on your forehead. Hey, if they can pass a collection basket in church......
    Then we would blend in with the returning crowd after mass.

    Sigh... all good things must come to an end.
    And that happened the day i forgot to take the pill bottle out of my pants and it opened in the washing machine.
    Being a very religious woman, my mom was very unhappy with me and did a pot of praying for me.

    Only after she beat the Bejeebus out of me for about half an hour though.
    That woman sure believed severe punishment would save the soul.
    Standard punishment was kneeling in the corner in shorts on kernels of dry rice with your face to the wall for however long it took the condensation from your breath to to build on the corner wall and hit the floor.

    And do not get caught with your face away from the corner walls trying to get oxygen or she would come back with a belt and then let yo know she had seen you.
    I remember the mandatory to get ashes for me or my grandmother cracked my head open, dont ask me how she knew but she knew when anyone of us used our own ashes instead of going to church
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    Quote Originally Posted by Common View Post
    I remember the mandatory to get ashes for me or my grandmother cracked my head open, dont ask me how she knew but she knew when anyone of us used our own ashes instead of going to church
    The charcoal ashes were really about fooling my mom. I wasn't skeered of nuns(too much). Lol.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HawkTheSlayer View Post
    Old news. Lol.

    I was crushing up charcoal briquettes in junior high and putting them in large pill bottle, then bringing them with me to the Catholic school I attended in the late sixties and 70s.
    It was mandatory to attend school mass on Ash Wednesday. We had to walk about 1/4 mile from the school to church.
    A dozen or so of us would just veer off in the wooded area and bushes instead of attending mass.
    We couldn't go back to class without ashes on our forehead because then we would be busted.

    So for $1/head(literally) Father Hawk would give you some "ashes" on your forehead. Hey, if they can pass a collection basket in church......
    Then we would blend in with the returning crowd after mass.

    Sigh... all good things must come to an end.
    And that happened the day i forgot to take the pill bottle out of my pants and it opened in the washing machine.
    Being a very religious woman, my mom was very unhappy with me and did a lot of praying for me.

    Only after she beat the Bejeebus out of me for about half an hour though.
    That woman sure believed severe punishment would save the soul.
    Standard punishment was kneeling in the corner in shorts on kernels of dry rice with your face to the wall for however long it took the condensation from your breath to to build on the corner wall and hit the floor.

    And do not get caught with your face away from the corner walls trying to get oxygen or she would come back with a belt and then let yo know she had seen you.
    That kind of "instruction" can quickly turn a child away from religion.
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    I wasn't scared of the nuns, I just hated going and, did everything I could, to get out of it.

    I pretended I was sound asleep, hoping my mom would just let me sleep, I faked sick...she always knew..... I even cried...and, I didn't even go to Catholic SCHOOL, that was what I did every Saturday, because I didn't want to go to Cathechism.

    My mom was religious, my grandmother, super religious, which is why, after having it shoved down my throat as a youngster..... I'm, not!

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