Ash Wednesday

I hope you got enough to eat last night as we celebrated the end of the Epiphany season with a traditional dinner of pancakes, eggs, and sausage. Everyone who attended seemed to have a good time and we all enjoyed the food and decorations. That festive feeling, though, now gives way to the penitential season of Lent and the Ash Wednesday services of today.

Today we pray that God will create and make in us new and contrite hearts. Today we are invited to a season of self-examination and repentance; a season of prayer, fasting, and self-denial; a season of reading and meditating on Holy Scripture; and a season of reconciliation and forgiveness.

On this day we are also reminded of our mortality: Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.

On this day we are called to make a right beginning.

During this season of Lent, may you find time to explore the wilderness, may you identify that which pulls you away from God and set that aside, may you find that which draws you closer to God and pick that up, may you rend your heart not your clothing, and may you be restored to wholeness of body, mind, and spirit.

Ash Wednesday Services:

Parking Lot – 10, 2, and 4

Church – 12:15 and 7:00

Personal Confessions by appointment

May you have a holy Lent,

Todd+