Ash Wednesday

6210 Northeast 181st Street,Kenmore WA 98028

01 March, 2022

Description

This service has the Ash Wednesday liturgy with the Holy Eucharist (Communion). Masks on until it is gone. Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return. The first of the forty days of Lent, named for the custom of placing blessed ashes on the foreheads of worshipers at Ash Wednesday services. The ashes are a sign of penitence and a reminder of mortality and may be imposed with the sign of the cross. Ash Wednesday is observed as a fast in the church year of the Episcopal Church. The Ash Wednesday service is one of the Proper Liturgies for Special Days in the Book of Common Prayer (p. 264). Imposition of ashes at the Ash Wednesday service is optional.