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Re: Meaning Of Ash Wednesday And Why Anglicans Celebrate It by Ubenedictus(m): 3:46pm On Jan 12, 2021 |
lucky4west: this is just incorrect. catholics do not emphasize physical signs without an inward regeneration. funny enough, the reading at mass in ash wednesday is usually from the book of Joel where it says rend your hearts not your garment and turn to the Lord, even the gospel passage will usually be Jesus saying when u fast do not put on a glomy look like the pharisees who like to show off outward signs without the inward reality. in fact the preaching that day will be centered on interior repentance, metanoia. so for you to claim that the catholic church emphasizes outward signs without a similar emphasis on the inward regeneration is totally wrong and probably shows you haven't really been to a catholic church to be informed on their attitude to outward signs. 2 Likes |
Re: Meaning Of Ash Wednesday And Why Anglicans Celebrate It by BianuBianu: 6:41am On Feb 17, 2021 |
Re: Meaning Of Ash Wednesday And Why Anglicans Celebrate It by BianuBianu: 6:43am On Feb 17, 2021 |
I am SE Anglican and experienced ashes growing up. I also attended those dreadful bare services for good Friday and wept all the time. It was so heart wrenching. Wolgrace: |
Re: Meaning Of Ash Wednesday And Why Anglicans Celebrate It by donnie(m): 9:21am On Feb 17, 2021 |
Y'all should quit trying to paint ancient pagan practices with bible. You Christians are all children of ROME and as such follow her in her pagan practices. Like Christmas, Easter, valentine, Thanksgiving, mother's day etc. All pagan holidays dedicated to various deities. Ash Wednesday begins the 40 day lent. An ancient practice instituted by Semiramis, the mother of Nimrod the sun god, who was also his wife. Semiramis became known as Ishtar, pronounced Easter. She mourned the death of her son Tammuz who was eaten by pigs for 40days. In mourning for Tammuz, the people were to eat no meat for 40 days. |
Re: Meaning Of Ash Wednesday And Why Anglicans Celebrate It by Ubenedictus(m): 2:15pm On Feb 17, 2021 |
donnie:somehow in your desire to be quick to criticism and slow to thinking you just forgot that the bible is full of 40 days fasting right from the testament down to Jesus. Please use you thinking faculty before you criticise 1 Like |
Re: Meaning Of Ash Wednesday And Why Anglicans Celebrate It by donnie(m): 5:23pm On Feb 17, 2021 |
Ubenedictus: Will you shut up... You idolater. It's full of forty days, and so? Where in the Bible were you told to celebrate Easter? |
Re: Meaning Of Ash Wednesday And Why Anglicans Celebrate It by Ubenedictus(m): 2:59pm On Feb 18, 2021 |
donnie:Christ our passover lamb has been sacrificed, Let us celebrate the festival..., Is that passage not in your bible or your pastor didnt remember to show it to you? |
Re: Meaning Of Ash Wednesday And Why Anglicans Celebrate It by RandomGuy48: 12:52am On Feb 19, 2021 |
donnie:Thanksgiving and Mother's Day aren't even religious holidays, how did the Roman Catholic Church come up with them? Heck, Mother's Day was made by an American woman (Anna Jarvis) in the early 20th century and she wasn't even Catholic. This reminds me of when I saw someone try to claim that the American Fourth of July holiday was based on some ancient pagan holiday. Ash Wednesday begins the 40 day lent. An ancient practice instituted by Semiramis, the mother of Nimrod the sun god, who was also his wife. Semiramis became known as Ishtar, pronounced Easter.Ishtar is not pronounced Easter, as any dictionary's provided pronunciation will demonstrate. Even if it was, "Easter" was originally written in English as Estre (see the Oxford English Dictionary's early examples of it) which sounds quite different; it only became written and pronounced as Easter much later, so any similarity would be coincidence. Not to mention that English is, I believe, the only language where the word for Easter bears even a passing resemblance to Ishtar. In French, the word is Pâques. In Portuguese, it's Páscoa. In Swahili it's "Pasaka ya Kikristo". Most languages take their name for the holiday from pascha, the original Greek term. German comes closest, with the name being Ostern, but that's still rather different from Ishtar. English's usage of Easter for the holiday is an anomaly among languages. As for your claims that there was a 40-day period of eating no meat for Tammuz, could you provide any proof of this? Claims like this are common on the Internet, but they are never backed up by any proof. No one points to any ancient document that records this custom. As far as I can tell, they're just made up and spread around by people who don't check to see if it's true or not. |
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