This guide will help you to prepare your heart at the start of Lent. Use this prayerfully during your day or before receiving the ashes.
ASH WEDNESDAY WE ARE BUT DUST Wednesday, February 17th 2021
On Ash Wednesday, we in the Church begin 40 days of Lent. The journey towards the cross and the empty tomb on Easter. We start this journey remembering our mortality. That we are dust and to dust we will return to. We will die one day. We are given this sign of death through the ashes; simultaneously, we are given the ashes in the sign of life, the cross of Christ. In the face of death, we proclaim that we have hope through Christ. In the face of our mortality, let us repent and return to the God who died on the cross so that we may live.