Aha! Ashes!

When you've been around the Catholic church all your life there are things that you do that you just don't question. One of them is receiving ashes on Ash Wednesday and having them placed on your forehead. I never really wondered why. But tonight I found out why! The ashes are smeared on our foreheads because the head is the seat of pride.

This is what happens when you try to help someone else learn more about the faith - you always end up learning something yourself!

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