Although it is still a few weeks away, many of you are asking what to do about administering ashes on Ash Wednesday. Many Christians adopt a four-fold discipline of prayer, fasting, study, and almsgiving in Lent. It is important that we stop at least once a year to remind ourselves of the reality of death in our lives, and of our need for the salvation that is found in Christ alone. Many of us think of ourselves as immortal. The imposition of ashes begins this journey by reminding us that we are but creatures of dust, created by God, and lost without his saving grace. It reminds me of our call to a holy observance of Lent. I have always loved that passage quoted above from our brothers and sisters in the Anglican communion. (from the Ash Wednesday service, The Book of Common Prayer, page 265). “I invite you, therefore, in the name of the Church, to the observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance by prayer, fasting, and self-denial and by reading and meditating on God’s holy word.
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