General Chat

You're welcome. I love pancakes :)

I like this school site:
http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/shrove.html

Thank you for the interesting link Joy. :-D


Must admit that I am also looking forward to Shrove Tuesday.....purely for the pancakes.... :-D

My OH is a super pancake maker....well, he was. Just hoping he can make some this year although he does tire quite quickly now.

http://www.theholidayspot.com/ash_wednesday/customs_tradition.htm

Thank you Cynthia and John.

John, the ash marks our commitment to Christ as we remember that He died for our sins.


I love the words which are used as the cross is marked on the forehead...

"Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return. Turn away from sin and be faithful to Christ."

It was an old Jewish custom. Prophet Isaiah mentions it (Is Chap 58 v 5). Jews would fast, put on this old flax-type garment and cover their face with ashes to show how wretched and sinful they felt.

Not sure how it connects to modern Christianity, but a lot of the Jewish symbolism continued down through the ages :-)

Hi Ann yes, it's all part of the same symbolism.......repentance of our sins and looking forward to forgiveness. :-)

Cynthia is that any connection to 'sack cloth and ashes?'

Not being Anglican I don't know.

Hard to believe that it's nearly Lent.........Ash Wednesday is looming already. :-S


I love the season of Easter more than Christmas. It always seems so hopeful and exciting.


Many churches will hold a service on Wednesday and some will include the Imposition of Ash - where the priest places the sign of the cross in ash on the communicants' foreheads.


Unfortunately, they don't do this at the church we are at now, but it used to happen at a previous church and I was never ashamed to be seen wearing the ash.


For Christians, the ashes are used as a sign of our mortality and the repentance of our sins.

It is a reminder to us that we all come from ashes, and to ashes we will return.

I also think it would have been the decent thing not to hijack this thread, Cynthia has posted on it in good faith ( literally) and kept it going for those who wish to read.

I don't suppose it's any good me asking as a 'friend' that all irrelevant posts are removed? by the sensible compassionate posters who are 'better than this'. Please? for Cynthia's sake and others who may have enjoyed the thread for its original topic.

this is a very specific thread I feel...like gardening and bird watching, they do veer off topic...but are not DELIBERATELY taken over as 'tit for tat'.

Sorry Sue .. :-D :-D

Lolol Hazel that HURT!!!!!!!!!!!

SLAP ... there you go Sue cant have you going blue .

Hazelx :-D :-D

You are actually playing into his hands - he will come out as the martyr. Please do not.

Cyns :-D <3

:-D

I understand perfectly well what is happening and do not wish to be drawn into it.


As Ann, who is a self-confessed church-goer will be aware, we gave up the 'eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth' theory 2,000 years ago.


We now turn the other cheek.


:-)

Whilst I do agree that John can be very irritating, I think this way of 'getting at him' is most unfair on Cynthia. :-(

Its not neccessary,just ignore him.

What a pity that some perfectly nice people on Genes have felt it necessary to spoil a thread that has had no nastiness on it. I know that Cynthia will cope but it really is not necessary just because a few people don't like one person. Surely you are all better than this. Very disappointing.