Ashtray Wednesday is the day, with that the chamfering time before Easter begins. One counts Sundays not as nearly days and counts one Good Friday and Good Saturday also inside, thus 40 nearly days up to the highest Christian holiday result, indeed Easter, at that the resurrection Jesu Christi is thought. Because the believer can be strewn on ashtray Wednesday as indications of the perishability and reversal ash on its head, this day received “ashtray Wednesday” to the names. The priest draws an ash cross for the believer on the forehead and speaks in addition:
" Consider, o humans, that you dust are and again to the dust will return ".
Ash, those the minister to the “Einascherln” uses, comes traditionally from the remaining Palm branches of the Palm Sundays of the past yearly.

In principle the chamfering time for the Christians means the turn to new life. With the old habits and “new humans” are to be broken ring ore will come out. The forms of the renouncement are today various. In former times it was the renouncement of meat and strict keeping of the chamfering requirements, today there is rituals as welfare-chamfered, to float the renouncement on excessive television consumption or the good resolutions for example more sport.

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