Ash Wednesday emphasizes a dual encounter: we confront our own mortality and confess our sin before God within the community of faith. The form and content of the service focus on the dual themes of sin and death in the light of God's redeeming love in Jesus Christ.

A BRIEF ASH WEDNESDAY SERVICE designed for one-on-one or small group encounters, as in a coffee shop, the steps of the church (if in a pedestrian neighborhood) or another place where participants may step out of the flow of traffic for a few minutes of prayer and conversation. Minister God be with you. All And also with you.

Ash Wednesday emphasizes a dual encounter: we confront our own mortality and confess our sin before God within the community of faith. The form and content of the service focuses on the dual themes of sin and death in the light of God's redeeming love in Jesus Christ.

The service for Ash Wednesday offers congregations the oppor-tunity to begin the journey of Lent together. While it has not al-ways been celebrated in the Presbyterian Church, the service has become an increasingly occasion for Presbyterians to mark the themes of penitence and repentance from sin that characterize the

#1--ORDER OF WORSHIP. GATHERING. This Ash Wednesday service is a “Journey through Lent and Holy Week” in that it gives a preview of some of the readings that we will explore throughout the upcoming season--readings from our lectionary.

Many churches hold Ash Wednesday worship services, which are often solemn and involve the imposition—or spreading—of ashes on participants’ foreheads. Here’s a little bit about the meaning of Ash Wednesday and some Ash Wednesday service ideas, including orders of worship with optional prayers, Scripture passages, and suggested hymns and ...

Ash Wednesday Service 1. This service is an ancient tradition, which centres on our mortality and on the confession of sin before God. This dual focus is maintained in the light of God’s redeeming love in Jesus Christ. While we are called to acknowledge our sinfulness in this service, it …

2021年2月1日 · At our church, Sojourn, we always observe Ash Wednesday with an early morning service. Ash Wednesday marks the first day of Lent. The Church set this date in the fourth century by counting back 40 days from Easter (excluding Sundays). This brings us to the Wednesday seven weeks before Easter.

Ash Wednesday occurs forty days before Easter, not including six Sundays (which are considered feast days), and recalls Jesus’s forty days in the wilderness, itself mirroring the Israelites’ forty years in the desert. In the scripture lesson from Joel, …

• In celebrating Ash Wednesday, we bring our mortal beings before God; as God told Adam and Eve, ^for you are dust, and to dust you shall return. God knows all our weaknesses! God calls us to confess our weaknesses, and to receive Gods forgiveness and cleansing. On Ash Wednesday, we celebrate Gods steadfast love for us.