ash wednesday
in the liturgical year, the first day of lent. the jewish and christian scriptures mention prayer and repentence while fasting and being covered in ash and sackcloth; so, the catholics started marking the beginning of lent by putting ash on their foreheads. it’s a tradition that extends back about 1,000 years. the ashes are made from the burnt palm branches used on palm sunday of the previous year.
although it’s not a holiday of obligation, catholics flock to m-ss on ash wednesday to get their ashes and begin lent. although many prayers are now used when the ashes are being administered, the old-time prayer everyone knows is:
remember man that you are dust
and unto dust you shall return.
okay, so i went to the gay student union meeting one night, and some r-t-rd told me i had dirt on my head. i told him, “it’s ash wednesday… you’re supposed to have dirt on your head, duh!” but some people just don’t know what’s cool.
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the day 40 days before good friday in the catholic/christian calendar. marks the beginning of lent.
i went to church on ash wednsday
ash wednesday is a catholic holiday that reminds catholics that they started out as ashes and will eventually become ashes again (in death). it is also a time of repentance of sin. during ash wednesday catholics attend m-ss (church) and the preist puts on teir forehead, a cross of ashes . the ashes come from the palms burnt from palm sunday of that year.
ashes to ashes, dust to dust
a religious day in catholicism in which ash is placed on the foreheads to symbolize that we were made from ash and to ash we will become.
i went to ash wednesday last week
when a girl lays flat on her back and a man stands ,preferably squats, down and puts his d-ck in the girls mouth while he takes a sh-t on her forehead and then rubs it in after the girl has sucked him off…
ah sh-t bro i just walked in on my dad giving my mom an ash wednesday
is the day lent begins. it occurs forty days before good friday.
i stopped eating pancakes on ash wednesday
in christian tradition, the first day of the 40-day season of lent, which recalls the last days spent on earth by jesus.
i gave up wearing nice socks for lent, so my feet have been uncomfortable since ash wednesday.
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