[cyncooper]

Both are absolutely correct, so I was not in error, rude and wrong starfish923. I did not respond to jrny's courteous pointing to another source, but when I receive ashes this is what I hear:

" Dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return."
Gn. 3:19

Looking in my Holy Bible (Catholic Edition) I see under Gn 3:19:

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground
for out of it you were taken;
you are dust,
and to dust you shall return.

Posting on a thread is not "barging" into anything. And for the record, I am not for gender neutralizing or gender role shifting. For example, I am not in favor of girls being altar servers.

[jrny]

I just looked at the Vulgate rendering, and you are correct. In Genesis, the word "homo" is not there, but the context of the passage is clearly understood that God is talked to Adam (a.k.a. man, mankind). The word "homo" is inserted in the actual liturgical formula for the distribution of ashes, since the verse is taken out of its "context" so to speak. In any case, the gender-neutralizers (feminists) conveniently add and delete words from the actual liturgical formulae based on their personal whims.