Note 16 — Chapter X · DAILY ROUTINE AT LLANTHONY.
Reading edition
In the article on “Lent at the Monastery,” which we have already quoted from the Monastic Times, it is stated that on Ash Wednesday, at Llanthony, “First the Superior [Father Ignatius] received the holy ashes on his tonsured head, then the monks; after this the nuns descended.… One by one they knelt before the priest, received the ashes on their veiled heads, and disappeared behind the Great Shrine.… Nones, Litany, and the seven penitential Psalms were said; the latter kneeling or lying prostrate in the ashes in the centre of the choir.”—Editor.