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Offering ‘Ashes to Go’ gets a mixed reception in Beverly

By Justin A. Rice

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  February 23, 2012

Walking down the platform at the Beverly Depot train station around 8 yesterday morning, Lyndsy Stopa paused in front of a folding table with a sign that read “Ashes to Go.’’ “Sure, what the heck,’’ Stopa said after being offered the traditional Ash Wednesday blessing by a lay Eucharistic minister from Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church. The Beverly church joined Episcopal parishes in a dozen states in bringing ashes to the masses to mark the beginning of Lent.

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