You are invited to join us Wednesday, March 5 at noon as we enter into the penitential season of Lent by the Imposition of Ashes and Holy Communion.
For the last three weeks, we have been preparing to enter into Lent, when we mirror the forty days Jesus spent in the wilderness, being tempted and tried.
Lent should not be viewed as a punishment, or a way in which we try to pay for our sins, rather, Lent is gift to us, a time of repentance through which our essential need for God is most clearly revealed to us and the path to his Kingdom most brightly illuminated. We are reminded once again that without Crucifixion there is no Resurrection.
“Turn ye even to me, saith the LORD, with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness…”
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