Ash Wednesday

Šimo ŠOKČEVIĆ and Tihomir ŽIVIĆ, "Byung-Chul Han and Josef Pieper on Festivity: An Attempt to Rehabilitate the Culture of Festivity in the Time of Mere Survival"

When we say that the cult festivities are the real and veritable ones, we do not think that certain secular festivities may not also exist. They may, but not completely, for Pieper says that "a festival without gods is a non‐concept, is inconceivable." In that context, Pieper takes the festivity of carnival as an example. A carnival makes sense, namely, if there is Ash Wednesday. If we eliminated Ash Wednesday, we would also eliminate the carnival. Since there is no veritable festivity that would not make a living from a divine worship (as there is no festivity without gods), people are increasingly less aware of that connection, and therefore they elude it with various forms of virtual and ephemeral "festivities," the so‐called "events." (ie - The Superb Owl)