Ash Wednesday: on 5 th MARCH 2014 Christ Calls us to a New Life Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent and always falls (COMES) forty-six days before Easter. Official name is “Day of Ashes,” Roman Catholic churches use this service to prepare church members to better appreciate the death and resurrection of Christ through self-examination, repentance, prayer, fasting, and self-denial. Ashes from the burned palms of the preceding years Palm Sunday are blessed. With these ashes, the priest marks a cross on the foreheads of worshippers,Hebrews 9:13,क्योंकि जब बकरों और बैलों का लोहू और कलोर की राख अपवित्र लोगों पर छिड़के जाने से शरीर की शुद्धता के लिये पवित्र करती है।14 तो मसीह का लोहू जिस ने अपने आप को सनातन आत्मा के द्वारा परमेश्वर के साम्हने निर्दोष चढ़ाया, तुम्हारे विवेक को मरे हुए कामों से क्यों न शुद्ध करेगा, ताकि तुम जीवते परमेश्वर की सेवा करो।13,For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh,14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? While the Bible does not mention Ash Wednesday, it does record accounts of people in the Old Testament using dust and ashes as symbols of repentance and/or mourning (2 Samuel 13:19, तब तामार ने अपने सिर पर राख डाली, और अपनी रंगबिरंगी कुतीं को फाढ़ डाला; और सिर पर हाथ रखे चिल्लाती हुई चली गई।; Esther 4:1, जब मोर्दकै ने जान लिया कि क्या क्या किया गया है तब मोर्दकै वस्त्र फाड़, टाट पहिन, राख डालकर, नगर के मध्य जा कर ऊंचे और दुखभरे शब्द से चिल्लाने लगा; Job 2:8, तब अय्यूब खुजलाने के लिये एक ठीकरा ले कर राख पर बैठ गया।). The modern tradition of rubbing a cross on a person’s forehead supposedly identifies that person with Jesus Christ. Numbers 19: 17 For the unclean they shall take some ashes of the burnt sin offering, and fresh water shall be added in a vessel. 17, अशुद्ध मनुष्य के लिये जलाए हुए पापबलि की राख में से कुछ ले कर पात्र में डालकर उस पर सोते का जल डाला जाए; On Ash Wednesday Catholics (Exact meaning पवित्र) will line up in their parishes and other close-by churches to receive ashes on their foreheads: the external sign of an interior commitment. Various formulas or words are still used. The first choice listed in the ritual is “Turn away from sin and be faithful to the Gospel.” A suitable second is “Remember, you are dust and to dust you will return.” Biblical times, sprinkling oneself with ashes has been a mark of sorrow for sin. अय्यूब Job 42:5, मैं कानों से तेरा समाचार सुना था, परन्तु अब मेरी आंखें तुझे देखती हैं; 6 इसलिये मुझे अपने ऊपर घृणा आती है, और मैं धूलि और राख में पश्चात्ताप करता हूँ। 5 “I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees You. 6 Therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.” Conversion from sin means that we not only walk away from sin, but we turn toward Jesus Christ and walk to meet Him again. The traditional practices of Lent provide some occasion for breaking old habits and establishing new ones, Daniel, तब मैं अपना मुख परमेश्वर की ओर कर के गिड़गिड़ाहट के साथ प्रार्थना करने लगा, और उपवास कर, टाट पहिन, राख में बैठ कर वरदान मांगने लगा। 4 मैं ने अपने परमेश्वर यहोवा से इस प्रकार प्रार्थना की और पाप का अंगीकार किया, हे प्रभु, तू महान और भययोग्य परमेश्वर है, जो अपने प्रेम रखने और आज्ञा मानने वालोंके साथ अपनी वाचा को पूरा करता और करूणा करता रहता है, 5 हम लोगों ने तो पाप, कुटिलता, दुष्टता और बलवा किया है, और तेरी आज्ञाओं और नियमों को तोड़ दिया है।7, हे प्रभु, तू धर्मी है, परन्तु हम लोगों को आज के दिन लज्जित होना पड़ता है 3, Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. 4 And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made confession, and said, “O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments, 5 we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgement,7 O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day Today, present time, Ash Wednesday is not a day of holy obligation (DAY). Roman Catholics attend Mass on this day in order to mark the beginning of the Lent season. The churches of the Anglican Communion, as well as some other Protestant churches observe Ash Wednesday One of my catholic friends in India says, Pastor Johnson YOU PROTESTANT READ THE BIBLE BUT WE CATHOLIC PRACTISE THE BIBLE.THIS IS TRUE.ON THIS DAY SPIRITUALLY WE HAVE TO CHANG OURSELVES WHAT WE READ WE HAVE TO PRACTISE PRACTICALLY IN LIFE Ash Wednesday Calendar: 2014 – March 5 2015 – February 18 2016 – February 10 2017 – March 1 2018 – February 14 2019 – March 6 2020 – February 26. May God bless you all Pastor Vinno Johnson KEEP FASTING AND PRAYER.THIS IS A MIGHTY POWER FOR GOD’s KINGDOM ALWAYS PRAY IN THE NAME OF JESUS, John – यूहन्ना,14:14, If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL. Your brother Munish Kumar Patel
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 04:23:22 +0000
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