Ash Wednesday – March 5th

A colourful image of the cross with the text "The Forty Days of Lent: Return to the Lord your God"

You can join the service on YouTube!
The stream will begin shortly before 10 am, and you’re able to watch or re-watch the live-stream at this YouTube link at any time.

The order of service is available here.
Having it handy will make it easier to join in more fully–includes the readings and all of the responses. It also has prayers that you may wish to use as those physically present receive the eucharist.

Sundays and Seasons offers this reflection on the readings we’ll hear today:
On Ash Wednesday we begin our forty-day journey toward Easter with a day of fasting and repentance. Marking our foreheads with dust, we acknowledge that we die and return to the earth. At the same time, the dust traces the life-giving cross indelibly marked on our foreheads at baptism. While we journey through Lent to return to God, we have already been reconciled to God through Christ. We humbly pray for God to make our hearts clean while we rejoice that “now is the day of salvation.” Returning to our baptismal call, we more intentionally bear the fruits of mercy and justice in the world.

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