Do you Still Get Ashed
I'm talking to the Catholics, current, ex, or recovering. Did you get ashed when you were little? I did. All through grade school I was ashed after the morning mass that the whole school attended, then walked around all day with them on - even after I got home from school - but mostly because by that time I had forgotten that they were there. I wonder what my (non-Catholic) friends thought. They never said anything to me about it one way or the other. The only other ritual I've ever participated in that comes remotely close to it was getting a red dot put on my forehead by (two different) East Indian Saints. It was their way of giving their blessing at the ens of their visits. I remember my Mom not liking it when I came up to see her once after a lecture by Shree Maa . That was the time that I felt something when Maa gave me her blessing. She held me down just a bit longer that with the others who were in line. I felt a small surge of energy pass through me. DH told me he tho...