We invite you to join the Ash Wednesday Back that Ash up contest!
It’s about finding an interesting backdrop (location), and YOU so proudly displaying your Ashes on your foreheads!
Although Lent is a solemn and reflective season in our Liturgical year, we here at PiousPosers think that even the best Lenten practices are better when shared with friends. What better way to begin Lent than to get out into our communities and show our ash around!
Here’s what you need to do:
- Find a Catholic church with an Ash Wednesday Mass happening.
- Go to said Mass and receive your ashes.
- Resist removing your ashes
- Get out and find an interesting place to “Back that ASH up”.
- Take a picture with you and your ashes in front of an interesting background, and send it to us!
(Some ideas could be: inside a fast food restaurant, a hockey rink, etc.)
6. Enter and try to WIN!!
BE CREATIVE!
HOW TO ENTER:
Submit your pictures to our FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE , or, if you don’t have Facebook, you can email them here.
DEADLINE:
You have until Midnight (pacific time) on THURSDAY Feb. 14th to enter.
PRIZES
You may be thinking: What do I win?!
Well, as the winner of the first ever Back That Ash Up contest, you will receive:
- The awesome feeling of sharing your faith!!
- By witnessing the cool practice we observe on Ash Wednesday of receiving burned palms in the form of ashes on our foreheads, we receive a great and humbling reminder that without God – we are simply dust.
- AND A YOUCAT!!!!!!
- As well as other amazing Lenten devotional resources that will be mailed to you stat when you win!
How can you NOT enter??
Free resources to help you get more out of lent + opportunities to share your faith + the cool feeling of having your picture chosen = AWESOME!
If you are asking yourself, “okay, Ash Wednesday – got it… but what happens after??“
… How about joining us in observing the Lenten Gratitude Challenge? You can find it HERE.
Good luck to all who enter!
Keep the faith Posers!
-PiousPoser Team
Pious Posers. We're all called to be Holy. We're trying to be holy and pious (in the good sense of the word), but we're human and we stumble along the way. The times we aren't 'making it' spiritually and/or going through the motions, we're posing! (Which is more times than not!) We're just not afraid to admit it! Pious: 1. having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for god or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations. 2. characterized by a hypocritical concern with virtue or religious devotion; sanctimonious. 3. practiced or used in the name of real or pretended religious motives, or for some ostensibly good object; falsely earnest or sincere: a pious deception. Poser: 1. someone who pretends to belong to a group only by affecting the attributes of the group. Make Sense? Sound Familiar? We're two guys, trying to live out our Catholic faith the best we can, but aren't scared to admit we fail! ... and fail often! But, we're all on a journey toward God, and we are here to help you along yours as well!
Here is a Lenten soundtrack for you: http://youtu.be/RCmn7pDgXlc