Ashes to go – supersize that for me and add some fries

Many Anglican Church of Canada parishes have jumped on the bandwagon of offering passersby in the street ashes on the forehead; it’s called ashes to go. For those who doubt the validity or efficacy of such antics – it has at least partially satiated the ACoC’s craving for relevance: it has its own hashtag, #ashestogo

AtoG

Much as I favour taking the Gospel out of church buildings to the world, I suspect this is more a case of turning a liturgical expression of our faith into buskers disguised as Nazgûl performing street theatre, having first carefully emptied it of all meaning lest it cause offence.

3 thoughts on “Ashes to go – supersize that for me and add some fries

  1. I have no problem with this actually. I know there is a franchise holder of a fast food chain appropriately called Fast Eddies who typically offers everything on the fly. Nothing like relevance in a fast paced life.

  2. To the ACC cum TEC’s sleepwalking response in wake of Lambeth’s ‘The English Play’, Act-Scene-, a more repentant response would be:
    “Out damned spot! Out, I say! One:two…Hell is murky!”
    And why not? Because
    “What need we to fear who knows it,
    when none can call our power to account.”

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