Missing Ash wednesday

[Renton405]

are all of you going to be able to attend ash wednesday?.. Luckily my church ahas a 700pm one so I can make it.. Theres a guidance booklet that I got in the mail showing what to do each day(prayer, fasting, church info)...its gonna be hard to eat only 1 meal lol

 

[epiclesis]

perhaps the book you read was only suggesting things to do for Lent?

You are obligated to fast and abstain on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. You are obligated to abstain on all Fridays in Lent.

Fasting means 1 large meal and two small meals that do not equal a large meal.

I'm going to Mass at 5:30 tonight.

 

[s_gunter]

I'm headed out the door for the 6pm Mass

 

[Catrione]

I wasn't able to go to mass and receive ashes today, simply because I was travelling for a large part of the day and unable to get to a church...

Is this ok, or should I go to confession or something?

 

[Da_Funkey_Gibbon]

No, Ash Wednesday isn't a holy day of obligation.

 

[TomUK]

Personally i think it is one of the days that should be a day of obligation.

 

[Da_Funkey_Gibbon]

Personally i think it is one of the days that should be a day of obligation.

Yeah, it's a bit odd that - isn't lent supposed to start when you get your ashes.

I guess the reason is that it's not celebrating anything or anyone in the same way as other Holy Days are.

 

[FullyMT]

Personally i think it is one of the days that should be a day of obligation.

But then no one would show up!

 

[AMDG]

But then no one would show up!

Funny. But not quite true. There will always be, what my priest calls PACE Catholics. "P" = Palm Sunday, there to get palms--"something for nothing". "A" = Ash Wednesday, there to get ashes--also "something for nothing". "C" = Christmas, there because it's traditional. And "E" = Easter, there because it's also traditional.

 

[FullyMT]

Funny. But not quite true. There will always be, what my priest calls PACE Catholics. "P" = Palm Sunday, there to get palms--"something for nothing". "A" = Ash Wednesday, there to get ashes--also "something for nothing". "C" = Christmas, there because it's traditional. And "E" = Easter, there because it's also traditional.

Touche

 

[Virgil the Roman]

Personally I think its more "CE", or just Christmas and Easter, or just completely lapsed altogether. 'Tis sad. Most of my family's Christmas and Easter "Catholics", or attend mass like twice a month, with no regard for going to confession for the missed mass, ergo, they get communion anyways! Ugh! Such disrespect to the Lord's Body and Blood!(Never mind the fact it is a sin to do receive the Eucharist in a state of mortal sin!)