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Q-tips and cotton balls: Norwalk churches get creative with Ash Wednesday celebration
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Parishioners leaving St. Joseph s Roman Catholic Church with their ashes for Ash Wednesday, February 17, 2021, in Norwalk, Conn. The ashes this year are being applied to the forehead with a q-tip for health reasons.Erik Trautmann / Hearst Connecticut Media
NORWALK Typically on the holy day Ash Wednesday, Christians receive a cross on their forehead marked in ash by a priest’s or reverend’s thumb. This year, they’ll feel a cotton swab graze their faces instead.
In a world filled with coronavirus pandemic firsts, local parishes are finding new ways to celebrate the holy day while remaining socially distant. ....

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