{"id":233,"date":"2013-02-13T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/?p=233"},"modified":"2013-02-25T19:13:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T03:13:11","slug":"holidays-and-holy-days-ash-wednesday-christiancatholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/2013\/02\/13\/holidays-and-holy-days-ash-wednesday-christiancatholic\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidays and Holy Days – Ash Wednesday (Christian\/Catholic)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This blogpost series is called Holidays and Holy Days to inform our OSU community about significant religious or spiritual observances.\u00a0 If you know of a significant holiday or holy day coming up, please communicate the information to Hannah Pynn\u00a0hannah.pynn@oregonstate.edu<\/a>\u00a0in the Dean of Student Life office.<\/p>\n

February 13th is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Context<\/strong><\/h3>\n

<\/strong>Ash Wednesday occurs 46 days before Easter, and the day marks the beginning of Lent which is a 40-day period (excluding 6 Sundays) of prayer and fasting in anticipation of the Easter holiday. \u00a0The practice of placing ashes on foreheads in the shape of a cross serves as a reminder of human mortality and a call to repentance during Lent. \u00a0This practice of forehead ash is common in Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Methodist, and some Baptist denominations.<\/p>\n

Significance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ashes were used in ancient times to express mourning or a symbol of expressing sorrow for one’s sins and faults. \u00a0Ash Wednesday is used as a ritual to remind Christians of how God created them, and how Christians depend upon the death of Jesus for reconciliation with God. \u00a0The ashes are traditionally blessed by a priest or minister and mixed with holy water or olive oil to form a paste. \u00a0The tradition of the ashes is not only a reminder of the value of reflection, penance, and prayer, but they also serve as a ritualistic connection with centuries of Christians who have participated in the practice.<\/p>\n

In some cases, congregations gather and are given small cards with the option of writing the sins they have committed and sins committed against them on the card as a sign of their sorrow. \u00a0The cards are then collected and burned on the alter as a symbol of Jesus’ atoning sacrifice, taking the punishment and burden of sins.<\/p>\n

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  1. Attending church services<\/li>\n
  2. Fasting<\/li>\n
  3. Abstinence\u00a0from meat (on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and every Friday during Lent)<\/li>\n
  4. Confession\/repentance\u00a0of sins<\/li>\n
  5. Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) the day before Ash Wednesday<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Additional Resources<\/strong><\/div>\n

    http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ash_Wednesday<\/a><\/p>\n

    http:\/\/www.ashwednesday2013.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

    http:\/\/ashwednesdayprayer.com\/ash-wednesday-kid-games-ash-wednesday-for-kids-catholic-icing-the-icing-on-your.html<\/a><\/p>\n

    http:\/\/www.ulc.org\/training-education\/guide-to-divinity\/24-religious-holidays\/207-ash-wednesday\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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    This blogpost series is called Holidays and Holy Days to inform our OSU community about significant religious or spiritual observances.\u00a0 If you know of a significant holiday or holy day coming up, please communicate the information to Hannah Pynn\u00a0hannah.pynn@oregonstate.edu\u00a0in the Dean of Student Life office. February 13th is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. Context… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3454,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,147691],"tags":[147690,128653,128966,145723,147692,23,129259,37],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-holidays-and-holy-days-2","tag-holidays-and-holy-days","tag-dean-of-student-life","tag-dosl","tag-everyone-matters-osu","tag-hannah-pynn","tag-oregon-state","tag-oregon-state-univerity","tag-osu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}