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Black & Colors

Black & Colors 5 March 2025 Today is black. Today, Ash Wednesday, we’ll wear black in worship. We’ll make black crosses of ash on each other’s foreheads. Black is appropriate because we’re called to start Lent, “Remembering, you are dust, and to dust you will return.” Black makes sense because just as skin turns black without oxygen, our lives turn …

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Ashes

 Ashes 2 March 2022 Ashes. Today, on Ash Wednesday, we mark ashes on each other’s foreheads. Ashes shaped in the cross of Christ accompany these words, “Woman/man remember that you are dust and to dust you will return.”  While the pastor will say the words gently, the statement might come as a harsh slap in the face, reminding us of …