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Dust to Dust is best known from the phrase "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust" from the funeral service in the Book of Common Prayer.
Further, covering oneself in dust and ashes was connected with fasting: "Then I turned to the Lord God to seek an answer by prayer and supplication with fasting and sackcloth and ashes" (Daniel 9:3).
"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust", a phrase from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer burial service; In literature ... Ashes to Ashes Live, ...
In Christianity, on Ash Wednesday, ashes of burnt palm leaves and fronds left over from Palm Sunday, mixed with olive oil, are applied in a cross-form on the forehead of the believer as a reminder of his inevitable physical death, with the intonation: "Dust thou art, and to dust will return" from Genesis 3:19 in the Old Testament.
According to christianity.com, the Bible references this in Genesis 2:7: "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a ...
The prayer for absolution is said by the ... Thou art dust, and to dust shalt thou return. ... The priest then pours the ashes from the censer into the open grave ...
Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust, If the Camels don't get you, The Fatimas must, Good morning, Mister Zip-Zip-Zip, With your hair cut just as short as, your hair cut just as short as, your hair cut just as short as mine. You see them on the highway, You meet them down the pike, In olive drab and khaki Are soldiers on the hike; And as the column ...
Ashes, ashes. We all fall dead--Brown Shoes22 06:53, 1 June 2007 (UTC) Version I learned growing up, on the west coast U.S., is the same except Ashes to ashes We all fall down for the third and fourth lines. Sung as a group of kids standing in a circle facing inward, holding hands with the person to the left and the right.