Ash Wednesday Service

Please join us for the Ash Wednesday service on Wednesday, February 6th at 7 pm in the Sanctuary.

Child care will be available.

Here are some thoughts on Ash Wednesday from The Rev. Margaret W. Jones, Cavalry Episcopal Church....

Ash Wednesday is the gateway to Lent. We have forty precious days to open ourselves up most particularly to God, to examine ourselves in the presence of one who created us, knows us, and loves us. We have forty days to face ourselves and learn to not be afraid of our sinfulness. We ARE dust, and to dust we shall return, but with God’s grace we can learn to live this life more fully, embracing our sinfulness, allowing God to transform us.

Thanks be to God for this forceful, sobering day.

May God grant us:

the wisdom to know ourselves;
the courage to admit our sins;
and the grace to receive God’s never-failing mercy and forgiveness.
Amen.

Copyright 2004 Calvary Episcopal Church.
Preached at Calvary Episcopal Church, Memphis, Tennessee, February 25, 2004, Ash Wednesday.