When the famous Ellen DeGeneres Oscar selfie appeared on my Facebook wall on Mardi Gras, modified with ash crosses, I laughed. But on Ash Wednesday, I began to worry.
The #ashtag is making its rounds on Twitter and Facebook, accompanied with selfies from clerics and laypeople alike, but is it contrary to what Catholics hear in the readings today? “When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, who love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on street corners so that others may see them. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward.”
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