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Significance Of "Ash Wednesday" by MetroStar(m): 9:04am On Mar 06, 2019 |
Good morning fellow Nairalanders, please what is the significance of "Ash Wednesday"? Just this morning I woke up, prepared for work only to come out of my house and find my Catholic Neighbours all bearing a sign of the cross, written with ashes, on their forehead. When I asked them the significance of the ash on their forehead, they felt as though I was challenging their believe and asked me if I was greater than their priest who asked them to apply it. Please am a Pentecostal and I've been seeing this practice which is common among Catholics and I've not been able to find someone who knows the significance or has a scriptural backing for this. Please help me clarify........ Thank you |
Re: Significance Of "Ash Wednesday" by Glorymax: 9:42am On Mar 06, 2019 |
MetroStar: Please take time to go through to the end.... thanks. Q: What is Ash Wednesday? |
Re: Significance Of "Ash Wednesday" by MetroStar(m): 9:08pm On Mar 06, 2019 |
Glorymax:I am not yet convinced about that. Can u please tell me when, who and how the ash Wednesday was celebrated in the Bible times. Thanks |
Re: Significance Of "Ash Wednesday" by Anas09: 9:37pm On Mar 06, 2019 |
Glorymax:All the Scriptures in that post are taken completely out of context. If you are a Christian, you'd follow strictly what the Bible teaches. 1 Like |
Re: Significance Of "Ash Wednesday" by Anas09: 9:37pm On Mar 06, 2019 |
Glorymax:All the Scriptures in that post are taken completely out of context. If you are a Christian, you'd follow strictly what the Bible teaches. |
Re: Significance Of "Ash Wednesday" by Nobody: 11:34pm On Mar 06, 2019 |
Anas09:Bro don't start an argument that you can't finish. The poster of that piece gave reasons why and scriptural backings. By the time we begin to dig into many things going on in the church we will make ourselves a laugh stock among atheist |
Re: Significance Of "Ash Wednesday" by Glorymax: 9:56am On Mar 07, 2019 |
MetroStar: Remove the word "Wednesday" which happens to be the day a 40 days period of Prayer, Fasting and Charity of Passion of Christ. It marks the period of total penance, God is ever willing and waiting to receive a repentant sinner. The church in its wisdom saw it proper to give the faithful ones opportunity and period of true reconciliation to God. The Ash is reminding us that we are dust, it's a mark of humbling oneself. What the church does within this period of preparation for the Passion and death of Christ are started with the following scriptural passages; Joel 2:12-18, 2 Cor 5:20-6:2, Matt 6:1-6, 16-18. The church is historic and traditional, you can not understand what the church does from outside. Hence attacking the church for what one does not understands becomes the norm of many. It hasn't helped anyone and can never help. Christianity is all about love of God and love of neighbour. However, the many Christians folds we have have not made our communities do away with hate and evil. The church does not teach that only it's members will have the beatific vision, however, she encourages her members to key into the graces that abound. I don't want to delve into scriptural now, but have to point out that the Christian scripture as we have it originally was given to the world by the church an in use for 1600 years before we started having issues. So for a true scriptural interpretations, the church have it all. I will not argue scripture with anyone but can discuss it one on one, tells you what the church does that is taditional and scriptural. The scripture itself is full of certain people's culture and traditions. |
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