#12594 Can Non-Catholics Receive Ashes? Mass and Ritual Meaning - Tom Nash

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🗓️ 18 February 2026

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“Can non-Catholics receive ashes?” This question opens a discussion on the significance of rituals in the Catholic faith. Other topics include the differences between Catholic Mass and Protestant services, the removal of certain feast days from the calendar, and the meaning behind the priest adding a drop of water to the wine.

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Questions Covered:

01:30 – Can Non-Catholics receive ashes?
06:09 – I’m in OCIA. How do I sum up the differences between a Catholic mass and a protestant service and why it’s important?
12:44 – In the new calendar we removed feast days of saints. Why did that happen and did it undermine papal authority?
16:58 – How can the bread turn into the body and the wine turn into the blood?
21:50 – Iowa Catholic Radio. Why does the priest add a drop of water into the wine?
28:47 – Are the SSPX in communion with Rome? What do you say to someone who goes to those masses?
34:28 – Can you emphasize why our Catholic rituals have meaning?
43:49 – Why does the eucharist have to be celebrated at every mass if it’s only required once a year?
51:14 – My priest changes words during the mass. What are your thoughts on that?

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0:34.3	I am Cy Kellett.
0:35.3	Tom Nash is our guest, as promised,
0:37.4	and we'll take any question you got on the Mass.
0:39.6	anything. You got a question about the Mass? Give us a call. 8883-1-8-7-8-84. Hey, if you're not Catholic and you've never been to Mass and you've got a question, 8-8-3-1-8-8-8-4. If you're already Pope and you go to Mass every day, you can call.. 888-318-7-884. I'm just saying if Pope Leo wanted to call and ask you a question about, would you take that call? I would take that call. I would make sure that we've got the Pope on the line. I'd like to think you'd reach. Yeah, right? Yeah, I don't know how you check that. refuse the Pope's question, although I don't know whether he would need one. But he might ask it in a rhetorical way. For the service of the, of our audience and the faithful therefore, sure. But maybe he, the Pope would be like, Tom, explain this to the audience. And that, you know, like he probably already, he's the Pope. I think he's pretty good with Catholic faith. I'd like to think so. Yes, I'm sure he is. There's no doubt.
1:14.1	I'm just going to say this right now, Pope Leo. He probably already, he's the Pope. I think he's pretty good with Catholic faith. I'd like to think so.
1:29.5	Yes, I'm sure he is. There's no doubt. I'm just going to say this right now, Pope Leo, Holy Father. You're welcome to call anytime. 888-3187884. Let me ask you about something. I got not a sacrament question, but a sacramental question. Sure. Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday. you are probably aware of that.
1:27.6	Yes, sir.
1:45.2	Today is Shrove Tuesday.
1:45.7	Sure. Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday. You are probably aware of that.
1:47.8	Yes, sir.
1:45.2	Today is Shrove Tuesday.
1:45.7	Shrove Tuesday.
1:48.1	Fat Tuesday.
1:49.6	Or pancake Tuesday.
1:50.0	Or Mardi Gras.
1:51.4	Carnival.
1:52.4	Fat and Fat Tuesday.
1:53.2	Right.
1:54.9	All those things.
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