Can’t Spell Valentine without LENT
Febraury 14, 2024 A week or so ago, I cam across this meme thanks to a Facebook posting by someone I’ve never met. The week before that I was joking with some folks about what might be on conversation hearts for this year’s Valentine-Ash Wednesday combo. I’m not sure I’ll ever hear the word VaLENTine the same again. Blessing the Dust – A Blessing for Ash Wednesday All those days you felt like dust, like dirt, as if all you had to do was turn your face toward the wind and be scattered to the four corners or swept away by the smallest breath as insubstantial – did you not know what the Holy One can do with dust? This is the day we freely say we are scorched. This is the hour we are marked by what has made it through the burning. This is the moment we ask for the blessing that lives within the ancient ashes, that makes its home inside the soil of this sacred earth. So let us be marked not for sorrow. And let us be marked not for shame. Let us be marked not for false humility or for thinking we are less than we are but for claiming what God can do within the dust, within the dirt, within the stuff of which the world is made and the stars that blaze in our bones and the galaxies that spiral inside the smudge we bear. —Jan Richardson from Circle of Grace |
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| God Loves You. No Exceptions. Wednesday, 2/14 – Ash Wednesday Holy Communion with Imposition of Ashes: 7:30am (Chapel) Noon (Chapel) 7:00pm (Nave) Ashes to Go: 1pm outside Door 1 Four Wednesdays in Lent Online Compline Offerings, 7pm Wedneday, 2/28 Wednesday, 3/6 Wednesday: 3/13 Wednesday: 3/20 |