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Celery here is what you want to know about the ashes....
The name dies cinerum (day of ashes) which it bears in the Roman Missal is found in the earliest existing copies of the Gregorian Sacramentary and probably dates from at least the eighth century. On this day all the faithful according to ancient custom are exhorted to approach the altar before the beginning of Mass, and there the priest, dipping his thumb into ashes previously blessed, marks the forehead -- or in case of clerics upon the place of the tonsure -- of each the sign of the cross, saying the words: "Remember man that thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return." The ashes used in this ceremony are made by burning the remains of the palms blessed on the Palm Sunday of the previous year. In the blessing of the ashes four prayers are used, all of them ancient. The ashes are sprinkled with holy water and fumigated with incense. The celebrant himself, be he bishop or cardinal, receives, either standing or seated, the ashes from some other priest, usually the highest in dignity of those present. In earlier ages a penitential procession often followed the rite of the distribution of the ashes, but this is not now prescribed.
The Pancakes and Paczki donuts ( only sold right now too) are ate on Shove Tuesday or Fat Tuesday as someone called it. In the old days you were suppose to you up all your supplies, like sugar, flour etc. to get ready for you fast for Lent.
Fasting is only on Ash Wed. is only for the ages 14-65. No meat, and your only suppose to have one full meal and your other two meals should equal the amount of one. Fish is a big seller on this day as is Good Friday when you fast again.
The name dies cinerum (day of ashes) which it bears in the Roman Missal is found in the earliest existing copies of the Gregorian Sacramentary and probably dates from at least the eighth century. On this day all the faithful according to ancient custom are exhorted to approach the altar before the beginning of Mass, and there the priest, dipping his thumb into ashes previously blessed, marks the forehead -- or in case of clerics upon the place of the tonsure -- of each the sign of the cross, saying the words: "Remember man that thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return." The ashes used in this ceremony are made by burning the remains of the palms blessed on the Palm Sunday of the previous year. In the blessing of the ashes four prayers are used, all of them ancient. The ashes are sprinkled with holy water and fumigated with incense. The celebrant himself, be he bishop or cardinal, receives, either standing or seated, the ashes from some other priest, usually the highest in dignity of those present. In earlier ages a penitential procession often followed the rite of the distribution of the ashes, but this is not now prescribed.
The Pancakes and Paczki donuts ( only sold right now too) are ate on Shove Tuesday or Fat Tuesday as someone called it. In the old days you were suppose to you up all your supplies, like sugar, flour etc. to get ready for you fast for Lent.
Fasting is only on Ash Wed. is only for the ages 14-65. No meat, and your only suppose to have one full meal and your other two meals should equal the amount of one. Fish is a big seller on this day as is Good Friday when you fast again.
Starting Friday he is only going to pay half of DH's insurance. It would be something like $700 a month to keep the kids and myself on it. We don't even have $70 dollars extra. 
Even my Ivy money(what we call what I make for babysitting) isn't enough to cover that. So I'm off tomorrow to apply for medicaid. 
Hopefully we will be able to pay for myself and DH to stay on the insurance...if not I guess we won't have any. But the kids have to be covered. It's a sad day when children in America don't have health insurance. 
I understand. Totally. I could do a whole long dissertation on heath insurance woes. But I'll just send another 
And then I stood there all smug for about 2 seconds until they said, "I'm sorry Miss UtahMama, that is incorrect" and I took my loser's walk of shame back to my cold metal folding chair, humbled. 
Mind you our health system still has flaws too. We have shortages of Doctors here in Ontario too.
