The Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments has asked priests to take special anti-COVID-19 precautions this year when distributing ashes on Ash Wednesday, including sprinkling askes on the top of people’s heads rather than using them to make a cross on people’s foreheads. The priest will say “the prayer for blessing the ashes and then sprinkle the ashes with holy water, without saying anything. Then he addresses all those present and only once says: ‘Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.’ The priest then cleanses his hands, puts on a face mask, takes the ashes and sprinkles them on the head of each one coming to him without saying anything.”