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The journey of Lent and Easter is a remembering and discovering that life comes out of death and it begins with Ash Wednesday and the solemn reminder that we are but dust and to dust we shall return! We remember that this was the journey of Jesus for us and as one of us. And we discover that this is our journey also. An interior journey that we make in the company of others. Sentence: “And whenever you fast, do not look somber, like the hypocrites, for they mark their faces t

The Ash Wednesday service is a very simple and ancient one. It is both sober and sensual as we smell the smoke, receive the gritty smudge...

From dust you came and to dust you shall return. A mediation on dust. (Ash Wednesday. Matthew 6:1-21: Joel 2:1-2, 12-17; Psalm 51:1-17;...

From dust you came and to dust you will return. May Lent teach us the gift of dust.