this speaks to my discomfort with the whole imposition of ashes thing, "Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven". oh how i agree with her, oh how i love to reason together, oh how i love her. Elizabeth+ says among other things: <Truth be told, I've always sorta side-stepped the issue in Ash Wednesday sermons. I've sometimes confidently muttered things like, "Well, it's an ancient practice we see in Scripture. ... " Well, while that's all true, the practice still nags at me, all these years later. ...> more after the jump...
by Mother Elizabeth Kaeton
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