Where I’m from, Ash Wednesday was on Wednesday. It’s not Ash “Sunday”. Lol.
Even the novus Ordo in our area has Ash Wednesday on Wednesday.
Just talked to a pre Vatican II Catholic, Ash Wednesday was always on Wednesday.
I wonder sometimes about the reading comprehension of some.
Yes, Ash Wednesday is indeed on Ash Wednesday, six weeks and four days before Easter Sunday, and the commemoration of St. Blaise, patron saint of diseases of the throat, is on February 3
rd. I
NEVER said otherwise! What I did say was that where I grew up as a pre VII Catholic (born June 1951, First Holy Communion May 1959),
in addition to the blessing of throats on February 3
rd and the distribution of ashes on Ash Wednesday, which was when the vast majority received those sacramental, the Church ALSO (not instead of) provided, on the following Sunday, the blessing of throats and the imposition of Ashes for those who were not able to attend church on February 3
rd and Ash Wednesday. Maybe this dispensation was up to the local ordinary or the pastor? IDK.
We still don’t know who Mr./Mrs./Miss (or maybe it’s Ms.) Anonymous #29 poster is, nor what was His/Her/It's purpose for posting some random presumable bulletin announcement, nor what was its source.
I am a pre Vatican ll Catholic, and I know by my own experience that the majority of pre Vatican ll Catholics had walking distance to attend Ash Wednesday Mass.
Maybe true where the above poster lived, but I doubt true for “the majority”, it defiantly wasn’t where I lived. Our farm was 20 miles from the closest church. A priest from the parish offered a Low Mass on Sunday’s at the public school cafeteria, but not on Ash Wednesday nor other days not on Sunday. All across rural America few lived closer than 10 miles from a church.