It is easy to see anyone who looks different, believes different, prays different and ascribe the label “them,” eternally distant and opposite from “us.” It is easy to grow numb to the wind whistling around a corner and the dirt buried somewhere below our feet. For out of the ground we were taken, for the dust we are. Instead of individual prayers over each person, the priest may instead pray once over the whole congregation, either “Repent, and believe in the Gospel,” or “Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Priests may use a Q-tip to make the sign of the cross on people’s foreheads, but penitents should not “self-impose” ashes. Please use the Social Network links just below to share this information from The Explanation, From Dust You Came. The Church speaks these words in today's liturgy, while ashes are placed on the foreheads of the faithful. “ and to dust you shall return ” GENESIS 3:19.
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