We will enter the Lenten season with an Ash Wednesday service on February 18 at 7 p.m.
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a forty-day season of penitence and preparation for the celebration of Christ’s passion and resurrection. Its name comes from the ancient custom of placing blessed ashes on the foreheads of the faithful, often in the shape of a cross, as a sign of repentance and a reminder of human mortality—“Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” The ashes, typically made from the burned palms of the previous year’s Palm Sunday, symbolize both sorrow for sin and the hope of renewal in God’s mercy.
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