{"id":61535,"date":"2023-02-22T09:52:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T15:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=61535"},"modified":"2023-02-22T09:52:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T15:52:44","slug":"ashes-a-quite-recent-anglican-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/22\/ashes-a-quite-recent-anglican-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashes: A Quite Recent Anglican Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <em>Ad Fontes,<\/em> Steven Wedgeworth lays out <a href=\"https:\/\/adfontesjournal.com\/steven-wedgeworth\/no-ashes-to-ashes-an-anglican-history-of-ash-wednesday\/\">the fascinating story<\/a> of how the giving of ashes was abolished by the 16th-century Anglican reformers and revived only rather recently. The first <em>Book of Common Prayer<\/em> to include it is the 1979 U.S. edition of The Episcopal Church. But already in the late 19th century Anglo-Catholics began the practice, to great controversy. 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