Grove City Trinity UMC Ash Wednesday Service @ 7:30 p.m. tonight. Ash Wednesday, is the first day of Lent, the 40 days that precedes Holy Week and Easter. In the Christian Scriptures the number 40 relates to the period spent in the Ark by Noah, the period spent by Israel seeking the Promised Land after the Exodus and the amount of time Jesus was in the Wilderness after his baptism and prior to beginning his ministry. For us, the Season of Lent is an invitation to 40 days of renewal (Lent means spring), 40 days to prepare ourselves to take in the Good News of Easter through deeper disciplines of prayer,fasting, and alms-giving. Ashes are the traditional sign of sorrow, repentance, and mortality. Receiving the sacrament tonight reminds us that Gods love is triumphant over sin and death, and that God remains in communion with us, that in Christ, our mortality is overcome.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 15:33:40 +0000
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