![]() I’m sure it strikes some as an “uncalled-for requirement or burden,” though there’s nothing mandatory about it even for those who have freely chosen to go out on a Wednesday night and attend worship. What then to make of the Christian practice known as the “imposition of ashes”? It’s the centerpiece of the liturgy on Ash Wednesday (beginning of the forty-day season of penitence known as Lent), in which a priest or pastor dips his or her finger in ashes (traditionally, burned palm branches from Palm Sunday) and draws a cross on the parishioner’s forehead, “imposing” ashes on the skin. the order or arrangement of imposed pages.something imposed: as (a) a levy, tax, or (b) an excessive or uncalled-for requirement or burden. ![]() Look up the word “imposition” in Webster’s, for example, and you’ll find four listings: It’s amazing sometimes that anyone can learn English.
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