I’m just reissuing this post to display the piece of artwork that we used for our Ash Wednesday ceremony. For Ash Wednesday, we had our worshippers form a single file line, during an evening worship service, approach a poster with a cross drawn on it, and made a smudge of a cross, out of [...]
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Ash Wed – Song Choice
Posted: January 26, 2009 in All Others, Ash Wednesday, LentTags: Ash Wed, Ashes, Change My Heart Oh God, Eddie Espinosa, Isaiah 64:8, Palm Fronds, Psalm 51:10
The Psalm that we usually use on Ash Wednesday is Psalm 51. This is a great penetential Psalm. Everytime I read it, I am amazed by how familiar I am with certain parts of it, because we use it in our liturgies all the time. There’s a nice contemporary song based on this Psalm; it’s [...]
Ash Wed – Responsive Reading
Posted: January 23, 2009 in Ash Wednesday, LentTags: Ash Wed, Lent, Multi-Part Reading
Ash Wed – Responsive Reading Pastor: Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent. The date is set by counting back forty days from Easter (excluding Sundays), which takes us to the Wednesday seven weeks before Easter. Why forty days? Each day symbolizes one of the forty days when Jesus fasted in the wilderness, [...]
