Ash Wednesday on the Picket Line

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Strikers at the University of Winchester held a service on the picket line:

https://twitter.com/WinchesterUCU/status/1232644739574456320?s=20

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[em_h]

I actually went to the blockade yesterday with everything I would need to do a Mass and imposition of ashes on the railway tracks, in case we were still there in the morning. Some people were, in fact, still there till early morning, but I was one of the first arrested, so unable to provide any liturgical aid.

I will say, I was pleased by how very carefully my arresting officer handled my "items of religious importance", even though the wafers and wine weren't yet consecrated and didn't really need such care.

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I was pleased by how very carefully my arresting officer handled my "items of religious importance", even though the wafers and wine weren't yet consecrated and didn't really need such care

Well, I'm glad of that! Though I'm sorry you weren't able to provide liturgical aid...

[sara]

Well, I want you both to know that I read this post at 6:30 this morning, went oh! It's Ash Wednesday and my ex has moved to Portland so I could ACTUALLY GO TO CHURCH, and then I went to mass. For like the first time in four or five years. Which was fine because it hasn't really changed at all, that's what's nice about it. So here you are ministering to the unchurched. The end.

Well not quite the end, then there was a colleague who wondered in the ladies' room at work how I'd gotten mascara to run all the way up to my forehead when hers was just under one eye.

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I'm glad you got to go to Mass!

then there was a colleague who wondered in the ladies' room at work how I'd gotten mascara to run all the way up to my forehead when hers was just under one eye.

Ha!