Join us for our Ash Wednesday services!
In addition to services at 12 Noon and 7PM, the Church will be open for personal devotions and prayer. You are invited to drop in as your schedule allows for a time of silence and solitude from 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM and from 1:30 PM to 6:00 PM.
Ash Wednesday, February 14th Schedule
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Church Open for Prayer and Silence
12 Noon - 1:00 PM
Ash Wednesday Service (Online and In-Person)
(Watch Live at 12PM or on demand at a later time)
1:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Church Open for Prayer and Silence
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Ash Wednesday Service
Childcare for children ages nursery through 4 years of age will be available for the 7:00 PM service.
More About Ash Wednesday:
Ash Wednesday is the beginning of the liturgical season of Lent. Lent is a time to prepare for the Lord's passion and resurrection through self-examination and repentance; prayer, fasting, and self-denial; and by reading and meditating on God's holy Word.
The season of Lent began in the earliest days of the Church as a time of preparation for those seeking to be baptized at the Easter Vigil. The forty days refer to our Lord’s time of fasting in the wilderness; and since Sundays are never fast days, Ash Wednesday is the beginning of the Lenten Fast.
Throughout the Old Testament, ashes are used as a sign of sorrow and repentance, and Christians have traditionally used the same to indicate sorrow for our own sin, and as a reminder that the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23). Like Adam and Eve, we have disobeyed and rebelled against God, and are under the same judgment, “you are dust, and to dust you shall return” (Genesis 3:19b).
But as we are marked with ashes in the same manner that we were signed with the cross in Baptism, we are also reminded of the life we share in Jesus Christ, the second Adam (Romans 5:17, 6:4). It is in this sure hope that we begin the journey of these forty days, that by hearing and answering our Savior’s call to repent, we may begin to be transformed and enter into the joyful celebration of his resurrection.