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Ritual of Burning Palms

January 31, 2018 By Mike Rubino

Ritual of Burning Palms

Tuesday

February 13, 2017

Following the 8:00am Morning Mass

 

 

Traditionally, the ashes for the Ash Wednesday service come from burning the palm fronds from the previous year’s Palm Sunday celebration.

Ashes are a biblical symbol of mourning and penance when the custom was to fast, wear sackcloth, sit in dust and ashes and put dust and ashes on one’s head.

Blessed ashes have been used in God’s rituals since the time of Moses.

They also symbolize death and so remind us of our mortality.  Thus when the minister uses their thumb to sign one of the faithful with the ashes, they may say,

“Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return.”

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