Ash Wednesday / Lent

[watchinginawe]

Is this a household observance for you?

No, it's a religious observance.

For the Christian, Christmas is a religious observance. However, it is celebrated (generally) by the entire household in exchanging gifts, cards, etc. So that is the context of my question there.

[IMINXTC]

I was led out of a devout Catholicism at 27, but was saved as a teen when confronted with the Bible. I have since rejected Catholicism.

[49ersALLS.F.]

Let occurs at the same time as the historic Festival of Booths. I’d explain the language arts joke, but it’s probably too political for a religion chat room, and also it revolves around atomic spelling. People think you’re talking down to them when you explain jokes, and also you just shouldn’t, because once you’ve done it they know what you know.

Explaining Lent/lint is a good way to find out which side of the American Civil War people fought on, though. Thin about it. Booths. Voting Booths, Polling Booths, John Wilkes Booth…..

[teddyv]

My wife is serving as principal for the local Catholic elementary school, so she is getting introduced to all the Catholic things including Ash Wednesday, coming home with some ash on her forehead. Yesterday, they did a pilgrimage around town with the priest, stopping at several locations to pray such as fallen soldiers and vets at the cenotaph, or for the homeless by the local homeless camp. Mass is every Friday, although she (and most others) cannot partake.

[Fenris]

For the Christian, Christmas is a religious observance. However, it is celebrated (generally) by the entire household in exchanging gifts, cards, etc. So that is the context of my question there.

I thought the religious observance of Christmas is the mass that Christians attend.

[Fenris]

Let occurs at the same time as the historic Festival of Booths.

The "festival of Booths" (known as "Sukkot" in Hebrew) occurs in the fall, not the spring.

Explaining Lent/lint is a good way to find out which side of the American Civil War people fought on, though. Thin about it. Booths. Voting Booths, Polling Booths, John Wilkes Booth…..

Someone's hitting the sacramental wine early today.

[49ersALLS.F.]

Major League Baseball is played with a baton made of specifically, Ash Wood. You have to use a tree cut in a certain area. Also, I was explaining a language art that pollsters use in specifically, American. You’d have to have a certain specific secular job to “get the ball”, but since you’re a rabbi, I’ll let you think what you think.