[Uri’el-2012]

Where Does the Catholic Ash Wednesday Originate from?

It is clearly not from Yah'shua.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach Adonai

[cothrige]

Where Does the Catholic Ash Wednesday Originate from?

It is clearly not from Yah'shua.

What a load. There is absolutely no such connection in Ash Wednesday. One can find the roots for it in the very words of the Lord himself.

Woe to thee, Corozain, woe to thee, Bethsaida: for if in Tyre and Sidon had been wrought the miracles that have been wrought in you, they had long ago done penance in sackcloth and ashes.

Matthew 11.21

We also see in Jonas that the king of Nineve "sat in ashes" in penance and repentance. Then there is Mordochai who lamented by "strewing ashes on his head." No, the practice of using ashes, specifically on the head too, as a sign of mourning or penitence is both ancient and Biblical. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the Vedas or paganism. Such imaginations are mere fictions.

[SuziQ]

"Remember Man that thou art dust, and into dust shalt thou return."
The Church is simply reminding us that we were made from the dust of the Earth by God, and when we die, our bodies will return to that Earth. We can decide, however, by the way we live our lives, either following God's Laws or not, where our souls will reside, after death.

Doesn't sound very 'pagan' to me.

[Petronski]

Where Does the Catholic Ash Wednesday Originate from?

Simple: from the Catholic Church, founded by Christ--the Second Person of the Holy Trinity--and guided to this day by the Holy Spirit--the Third Person of the Holy Trinity.