Ash Wednesday

[juldea]

Heh. I remember last year when I wandered around wondering why so many people had smudges on their foreheads.

I know a little bit more about Catholicism now. Not a lot... but enough. ;)

Comments

[skybabie.livejournal.com]

Don't feel bad ;) I married into a family that I had to become catholic to actually use the church - and well lets just say I've said a few things the past few weeks that have gotten me in a lot of trouble because honestly it's been almost 5 years and I still no nothing about it, or so it seems. :P

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Heh, oops! I imagine there's a lot of rules and such. :P

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Grew up in: Arkansas, California (mid), Hawaii, Louisiana, California (northern), Oklahoma

Just not high concentrations of Catholics, I guess.

[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

That was my thought, too!

[flyingindie.livejournal.com]

I grew up in Oklahoma and Texas (and still live here), and I can honestly say I've never seen an Ash Wednesday smudge in my whole life.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Thanks for backing me up!

[karlean7.livejournal.com]

Yeah, in California, I saw no smudges. I come to Boston, and there are smudges EVERYWHERE. It's really interesting.

[pezzonovante.livejournal.com]

There are 2 immigrant groups primarily responsible for Catholicism in America: Italians (the North End, Little Italy) and Irish (Southie, pretty much all of NYC). So yeah, Boston, New York, Northeast in general, lotsa "crosses" in those areas.

[baronbrian.livejournal.com]

I know I don't see them around here and there at least two Catholics in my department. Maybe it's a regional thing.

[ex-sleek838.livejournal.com]

I used to rub mine off and get scolded by the catholic nuns.

[jester-king.livejournal.com]

I'm with sleek, go get smudged, wash it off, and when small get knuckles slapped by ruler wielding nuns, that's how Ash Wednesday tends to go

[anitra.livejournal.com]

I grew up in a very Catholic neighboorhood, but I never saw it much growing up. I think the people who I regularly saw (school-age friends and adult neighbors) weren't very religious.