Ash Wednesday

Wednesday, February 18
7:00 p.m. – Full Liturgy with Holy Communion
Livestreamed to our YouTube Channel.

Prepare your hearts and minds for the Season of Lent, starting with Ash Wednesday.

On Ash Wednesday we begin our forty-day journey toward Easter with a day of fasting and repentance. Marking our foreheads with dust, we acknowledge that we die and return to the earth. At the same time, the dust traces the life-giving cross indelibly marked on our foreheads at baptism. While we journey through Lent to return to God, we have already been reconciled to God through Christ. We humbly pray for God to make our hearts clean while we rejoice that “now is the day of salvation.” Returning to our baptismal call, we more intentionally bear the fruits of mercy and justice in the world.

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love.
Psalm 51:1

Additional Details on the St. James website ( https://stjamesgettysburg.org/event/ash-wed/)

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