![]() ![]() Your neighbor on your right would place the ashes on your head, then you would place the ashes on the head of your neighbor to the left. In one service I attended, the ashes were distributed by the persons in the pews. This seems to be a matter of custom and is not required. The ashes are traced in a cross on the heads of the faithful. Most services I have attended utilize lay men and women to help with the distribution of the ashes. Or: Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” The rubric following the blessing of the ashes states: “Then the Priest places ashes on the head of all those present who come to him, and says to each one: Repent, and believe in the Gospel. In the Roman Rite, ashes are placed on the heads of the faithful on Ash Wednesday after being blessed by the priest. A reader recently wrote in asking: “Would it be wrong to encourage people to self-impose ashes on Ash Wednesday, as a sign of their repentance?” ![]()
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