Ash Wednesday
February 21, 7 pm
The holy season of Lent kicks off this coming
Wednesday evening, with a traditional Ash Wednesday service of worship. In
addition receiving the traditional ashes of the day, worshippers will be invited
to release something in their lives to God that has been holding them back.
Worshippers will write down a specific issue, behavior, or conflict in your
life, and then bring it forward to be symbolically burned.
After burning away what blocks us from God, we will receive the ashes as a reminder of our mortality, and of our commitment to make the Lenten journey together.
The Choir will sing the anthem "Return to God," by John Helgen. The text of this anthem is what has helped us set our theme for this Lenten season.
After burning away what blocks us from God, we will receive the ashes as a reminder of our mortality, and of our commitment to make the Lenten journey together.
The Choir will sing the anthem "Return to God," by John Helgen. The text of this anthem is what has helped us set our theme for this Lenten season.
Return to God from wayward
ways
and crossed with ash the threshold cross
into the desert wilderness.
There at your will these two score days;
Seek out the dry, a spring awaits.
Seek out the plain, there angels care.
And in the sere and barren air discern the passion under all:
God's voice, "Return, I love you still, I love you still, I love you still."
and crossed with ash the threshold cross
into the desert wilderness.
There at your will these two score days;
Seek out the dry, a spring awaits.
Seek out the plain, there angels care.
And in the sere and barren air discern the passion under all:
God's voice, "Return, I love you still, I love you still, I love you still."
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