Ash Wednesday

Gracie has been learning about Ash Wednesday at school so she was VERY EXCITED to go to the "All School Mass" today & get her ashes. After her first experience of getting ashes during mass, she came home with lots of information to share. According to Gracie, the ashes that are used are made on Palm Sunday. They look like black dirt but they don't hurt when they put them on your forehead. They put them on your forehead in the shape of a cross. She said "You know, a cross looks like a lower case "t". She said that it's okay if the ashes rub off as they will still be there & she'll get a new one when she's in first grade :) She was very proud to wear her ashes & didn't want to take them off at bedtime. This all sounds great to me. And oh the memories of growing up in a Catholic School :)