#12595 Is Receiving Ashes Against Scripture? | Why Aren’t You Catholic? - Joe Heschmeyer
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🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Is Receiving Ashes Against Scripture? This question opens a discussion on the intersection of faith and politics, addressing concerns about the implications of such support. Other topics include the challenge of serving both God and money, and the complexities of identity in faith, such as navigating historical claims about the papacy and exploring the differences between Catholicism and Orthodoxy.
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Questions Covered:
- 03:12 – Reading not doing public penance, but then we get big ashes on our heads.
- 09:23 – Jesus said you can’t serve God and money. Is it contrary to being a christian for a Church to support a political party or movement?
- 18:38 – Isn’t it condescending to ask the question, why aren’t you Catholic? You’re asking, why aren’t you one of us? Wouldn’t it be better to ask who raised you to be the faith you are?
- 40:56 – 1689 London Baptist confession of faith claims the pope is the Anti-Christ, how do I navigate that as a non-Catholic?
- 51:52 – I’m looking into Catholicism and Orthodoxy. What’s the Catholic response to the claim that Rome used to be orthodox before the great schism?
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| 0:29.9 | Very happy first day of Lent to you. |
| 0:35.1 | And some people might want me to say blessed first day of Lent, but you know what |
| 0:39.7 | blessed means? |
| 0:40.3 | It means happy. |
| 0:41.1 | So happy Lent to you today. |
| 0:43.7 | Yes, that is correct. |
| 0:44.7 | Fat Tuesday is over. |
| 0:45.6 | Marty Gras is over. |
| 0:46.9 | We now start the, and I'll put this in quote, 40 days of Lent. |
| 0:52.9 | Today's Ash Wednesday. |
| 0:54.1 | So if you're just joining us right now and you didn't know why everybody looks dirty on their 40 days of Lent. Today's Ash Wednesday. |
| 0:59.9 | So if you're just joining us right now and you didn't know why everybody looks dirty on their forehead today, that's it. |
| 1:00.9 | It's Ash Wednesday. |
| 1:10.0 | If you are, if you have any questions about the Catholic faith and you are not a Catholic, we're going to hold the phones for you today. 8883117884. Perfect day to talk with non-Catholics where all the Catholics are out there. We're not alone. I mean, other people do this as well, but the Catholics are all out there with crazy-looking foreheads today. Why aren't you Catholic? Is the question we want to ask you. 8883-1-8-7-8-8-4. |
| 1:28.4 | Look at him. |
| 1:32.7 | Joe Heschmire with the beautiful dark black ashes. |
| 1:42.1 | My ashes are almost all gone because I am the most rubbing my forehead, scratching my face, person on the earth. So it's embarrassing to me. I look like I didn't even |
| 1:45.4 | go to mass today, Joe. Yeah, my kids, one of them didn't make it even 10 minutes into mass after |
| 1:52.7 | receiving ashes before he'd accidentally wiped them off and then was disappointed. So yeah, |
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