[Catholic Caucus] Email to my pastor - The NON TANGERE of Ash Wednesday

Les Femmes ^ | February 9, 2021 | Susan Matthiesen

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[Catholic Caucus] Email to my pastor - The NON TANGERE of Ash Wednesday

Someone forgot that touching is forbidden.

Dear Father,

Supposedly it isn't your fault that you cannot touch our foreheads with ashes but that of Bergoglio the Jesuit, Bishop Noonan and other left leaning Marxist bishops all of whom dispense blasphemous dictates to Catholics across the world as if we are all stupid.

Ashes in our hair is the most stupid thing yet. Possibly the Vatican should pass out salt and pepper shakers to all parishes in the world for Ash Wednesday - the day Catholics are to have a Cross of ashes on our forehead which is a witness to the world ALL DAY LONG so that every person we interact with during the day can SEE the Cross and know that we believe in God. Plus, with salt and pepper shakers, priests, deacons and whoever else is dispensing ashes on top of our heads in our hair wouldn't have to dirty their hands with actual ashes at all. Holy Ash Hair Shakers could be manufactured then sold in Catholic religious articles shops across the world. Just think of the millions, possibly billions, the Vatican could make on this one. Holy Water and Holy Water bottles out, Holy Ash Hair Shakers in.

My biggest concern is for bald men with ashes on top of their head. It will look as if they forgot to wash or perhaps never wash at all. Oh well. Just another flaw to work out for the many new fashionable directives these days. 

HOWEVER - you might want to reconsider a few words in future homilies so that the meaning of your message resounds with the reality of what you are actually doing. Yesterday, just after announcing that you will not be touching anyone with ashes on our forehead, but sprinkling the ashes into the hair on top of our head, you then said in your homily that Christ TOUCHED Peter's mother-in-law to heal her. At least two, if not three, times you said that Christ had to TOUCH Peter's mother-in-law to heal her. Yet, priests are NOT TO TOUCH the sheep - probably ever again. So much for Bergoglio's famous shpeel about priests "living with the smell of the sheep". What a farce.

Just stare at my wound and believe.

Two thousand years ago it isn't as if they didn't have the dreaded contagious disease of leprosy yet Christ did not sprinkle mud across the blind man's face. Christ did not stand 6 feet away wearing mask and gloves in Simon Peter's mother-in-law's doorway. Christ did not tell the Samaritan woman to get on the other side of the well and put on her mask before speaking to Him. Christ did not tell the woman anointing His feet with oil not to touch Him, and He did not tell Thomas to just stare at the wound in His side and believe. He didn't even ask Thomas to put on rubber gloves.

So, just a suggestion....if you are not to touch the sheep yet are telling us that Christ touched people when He healed them, either touch us or don't mention the elephant in the room - that Christ touched people when ministering to them.

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Ping

[DuncanWaring]

This’ll fit right in with the “baptism by water pistol”.

[Jim Noble]

If the Great Fear is to be turned back, it will be done by Christians, or not at all.

[Marchmain]

Our priest will be using cotton squares.

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Pope Francis will be using custom made six foot long Q-tips, per instructions from Gates and Fauci.

[Cronos]

In Poland the tradition always is to put ash on the hair

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Is it their tradition to don face masks and remain silent while distributing the ashes?

[Cronos]

No, though people will be wearing face masks, it will not be silent.

Churches have been open since summer and there has been not one single incident in which a church was a center point for disease spread