Question

Explain ash Wednesday and black monday

Answer 1

Additionally, Ash Wednesday is also a day of fasting. Catholics eat no meat on this day & eat only one full meal. It is also a Holy Day of Obligation, meaning that Catholics are supposed to go to Mass on this day.

When the ashes are placed on a person's forehead in the sign of the Cross, the priest says "Remember man that you are dust and unto dust you shall return."

The purpose of the day is to draw your attention to the business of Lent, the next 40 days - to symbolically go through the 40 days which Christ spent in the dessert preparing himself for his life's work.



Black Friday is the name given to the shopping day after Thanksgiving. It was originally called Black Friday because so many people went out to shop that it caused traffic accidents and sometimes even violence. The Philadelphia Police Department coined the phrase to describe the mayhem surrounding the congestion of pedestrian and auto traffic in the downtown area.