This Ash Wednesday, Green Anglicans are beginning Lent by smearing carbon on their foreheads in order to find out what their carbon footprint is. The answer, of course, is: a littler higher than it would have been if you hadn’t set fire to palm leaves and plastered the carbon residue on your head.
For the non- green Anglicans among us, here is a song:
No ashes on our foreheads today due to the lockdown this year!
We had ashes, and our priest sanitized his hands after each imposition. We repented of so many sins I cannot remember, but I don’t think we repented of burning some palms.