These words also allude back to the creation of man in Genesis 2:7, They are the contained in the curse of Genesis 3:19 that is visited upon Adam after the eating of the forbidden fruit. The words accompanying the rite of ashes should ring familiar to Catholics who know their Bibles. Because nothing gets your attention like someone drawing ashes on your forehead-as a symbol of your death, no less-in the shape of an instrument of lethal torture. Apparently, getting told that you will one day rot in the ground is not something one gets used to.Īnd that seems by design: Lent stops us dead in our tracks in a way that other liturgical seasons do not. But I know lifelong Catholics who are also unsettled by these words. I was still relatively new to the Church at the time, so I could have only heard these words a few times before.
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