Ash Wednesday in St Albans, Herfordshire, February 2024
Copyright Debbie Smyth, 16 February 2024
Posted as part of Weekend B&W
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Ash Wednesday in St Albans, Herfordshire, February 2024
Copyright Debbie Smyth, 16 February 2024
Posted as part of Weekend B&W
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Travel with Intent 
On one of the local online groups in Virginia, someone asked where they could get drive-through ashes. Apparently, that is an actual thing.
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Modern life!
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How strange. As sustainabilitea said, those who attend Mass here have their foreheads marked with a cross of ash which they wear all day. This looks a bit like a marketplace event :)
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This is the people from the Cathedral bringing the crosses of ash to the people who don’t go to church.
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Oh right. I wonder what the unbelievers think of it :)
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A bit weird or what 🤔
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I found it very strange, I have to say. But it goes back to its origins, I guess, when people performed acts of penance in public.
It was also a strange combination on the calendar this year, with Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent coinciding with jollity, chocolates and alcohol on Valentine’s Day.
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I guess so, I forgot about penance. I would ask where the ash came from first though.
Hedonism wins every time. Churches and religious stuff is for photographing 😁
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🙂 🙂 🙂
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We always get ashes on our foreheads in church shortly before leaving. I’ve not seen this sort of thing before.
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I think because not so many go to church these days, they try to bring it out to the streets.
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Makes sense.
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Eh? What’s that about? A spoonful of ash for all believers?
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Exactly. I’ve never seen its happen out on the streets before, but I think it’s a regular event in St Albans
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