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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).
Dust to Dust (Heavenly album), a 2004 album and a track on the album; Dust to Dust (Pete Nice and DJ Richie Rich album), a 1993 album and a track on the album; Dust to Dust, a 2001 Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson album "Dust to Dust", a song on 1999 album Famous Monsters by The Misfits "Dust to Dust", a song on the 1996 album Skold by Tim Skold
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.
The full name of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer is The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England, Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be Sung or said in churches: And the Form and Manner of Making, ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and ...
Most churches use palms from the previous year’s Palm Sunday mass to create the ash. When Christians receive ashes, the priest or pastor says, “From dust you came and from dust you will return.”
Ashes to Ashes (British TV series), a follow-on from the BBC drama Life on Mars; Ashes to Ashes (South African TV series) "Ashes to Ashes" (Only Fools and Horses), an episode of Only Fools and Horses
Keeping ashes in a sacred place "ensures they are not excluded from the prayers and remembrance of their family or the Christian community," and prevents the departed "from being forgotten, or ...
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes." The prophet Jeremiah calls for repentance by saying: "O daughter of my people, gird on sackcloth, roll in the ashes" (Jer 6:26). The prophet Daniel recounted pleading to God: "I turned to the Lord God, pleading in earnest prayer, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes" (Daniel 9:3).