Ash Wednesday: Churches make last-minute calls to ash merchants

Still, Alan says, young people are intrigued by days like Ash Wednesday. “Ritual allows us to sit with the holy and the questions, and to not feel compelled to answer all of them,” Alan said. “This is a generation, a lot of whom were not raised in aBy Piet LevyReligion News Service (RNS) Five years ago, the Rev. Teresa K.M. Danieley had an epiphany of sorts.By Steve Padilla There was a time when churches prepared for Ash Wednesday by burning the dried palms from the previous Palm Sunday.

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