Remember, Man, You Are Dust

BY ROGER WATSON As penitents receive the ashes from a Catholic priest today on Ash Wednesday, the priest says, ‘Remember, man, you are dust and to dust you will return.’ These days, at least for children and the faint-hearted, the priest may use alternative forms, attenuated so as not to remind people of their ultimate fate. I have no idea what those forms are, but … Continue reading Remember, Man, You Are Dust