You are dust, and to dust you shall return. –Genesis 3:19
Please join us in worship on Ash Wednesday, March 6, as we commemorate the beginning of the season of Lent.
There are three opportunities to worship and receive ashes.
- Holy Communion with Ashes at 7 a.m. in person or online.
- Service of Ashes at St. Paul’s at 12 noon with Pastor Dave. He will pray and place ashes on foreheads as a sign of repentance.
- Community worship service at 7 p.m., location to be announced. Join with the West Deptford Area Methodist Churches to receive ashes as a sign of repentance of our sins.
On Ash Wednesday worshipers’ foreheads are often marked with ashes in the sign of the cross. The ashes traditionally come from burning palm branches from the previous Palm Sunday.
In Old Testament days, ashes were a sign of mourning and repentance. Today, some worshipers wipe off the ashes before leaving church, to symbolize being cleansed from sin by Jesus’ death; others wear the ashes the rest of the day, carrying the cross of Christ into the world.