Feb 27, 2022 · There are three reasons why Lutherans go to church to receive ashes on Ash Wednesday. First, the ashes remind people of their sinfulness. Second, the ashes remind people of their mortality. Third, the ashes remind people that …

Feb 14, 2024 · Ash Wednesday is the Wednesday of the seventh week before Easter and the first day of Lent. The day is named for the practice of imposing ashes, a practice that many Lutheran congregations have found to be a very meaningful part of the Ash Wednesday liturgy.

What is the significance of Ash Wednesday and ashes on the forehead? How do you determine the date of Easter each year? Could you please explain Epiphany and the Circumcision of our Lord?

Feb 4, 2008 · Each year on Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, the liturgy of the Church calls us to begin “a holy season of prayerful and penitential reflection,” when “our attention is especially directed to the holy sufferings and death of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

St. John's Lutheran Church. February 17, 1999 + 1:00pm. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the season of Lent. A season of renewal. A time in which Christians consider the meaning of their baptism into Christ and his church.

Mar 1, 2017 · For Ash Wednesday, our devotion comes from Gathered Guests: A Guide to Worship in the Lutheran Church, Second Edition. Reader, remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return. As you receive ashes on your forehead today, you will also hear those words from your pastor.

The service for Ash Wednesday leads us into the penitential season of Lent -- a season marked by stripping away the non-essential and the unimportant, by listening in quietness to the groaning of all creation as it writhes in sinfulness, by reflecting on our own sinfulness and on God's gift of forgiveness which comes through his Son, Jesus ...

Feb 22, 2023 · It is God who responds to the ashes of our repentance by sending His only begotten Son. Jesus Christ, on the cross, has washed us of the ashes of our sins, removed the sackcloth of our guilt, and clothed us in His robes of righteousness and garments of salvation.

Mar 1, 2019 · COVER STORY – ASH WEDNESDAY. The custom of observing a time of fasting, prayer, and repentance leading up to the celebration of Christ’s resurrection began very early in the Christian church, but practices and customs varied among congregations in different areas.

Jan 15, 2021 · Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of a journey when we remember Jesus’ ministry, his ability to heal and care for humanity, and at the same time, his passion, death, and overall, his glorious resurrection. In a “typical” year it might seem too soon to even talk about Easter on Ash Wednesday.