crazyheart
Ash Wednesday
Posted on: 02/22/2012 13:23
Have you or are you having a service of ashes today?Do you have it at lunch time or in the evening? What do you receive from this service?
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SG
Our charge has no Ash
Posted on: 02/22/2012 14:11
Our charge has no Ash Wednesday service. Personally, I wish it did. The ritualism and symbolism was meaningful to me in my mom's church, even though I was not yet a Christian.
I have seen it done with only last years palms burnt and also with notes. I liked the personalism of symbolic act with the notes.
revjohn
Hi Crazyheart, I'll be
Posted on: 02/22/2012 14:33
Hi Crazyheart,
I'll be presiding in my first Ash Wednesday Service in roughly an hour or so.
We tossed the service together when one of our Music Directors wanted to offer a free recital of Lenten classics so . . .
Much music along with a confession and the imposition of ashes is the order of the day.
The playlist is as follows:
Abide With Me
I Want Jesus To Walk With Me
Jesus, Keep Me Newr The Cross
Were You There?
What Wondrous Love Is This
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,
Nearer, My God, To Thee
Jesus, Lover Of My Soul
Lamb of God/Old Rugged Cross
O Sacred Head Now Wounded
God So Loved The World
Go To Dark Gethsemene
A healthy dollop of African-American spirituals due to it being Black History Month as well as some of the old chestnuts of the Christian faith.
Grace and peace to you.
John
Beloved
Our church does not have an
Posted on: 02/22/2012 15:26
Our church does not have an Ash Wednesday service, but the study group I go to in the evenings does. We have a short liturgy and then do the ashen cross on the forehead. I still have to burn my palms!
musicsooths
We are having a service
Posted on: 02/22/2012 15:29
We are having a service tonight at 7:00 it will have the ashes placed on the forehead asl well as a reflective serivice time.This is the first one in our new building.
MC jae
crazyheart wrote: Have you
Posted on: 02/22/2012 15:37
Have you or are you having a service of ashes today?
No. (I did have a lovely service of chicken on a bun with a side of onion rings for lunch).
{quote]Do you have it at lunch time or in the evening? What do you receive from this service?[/quote]
n/a.
somegalfromcan
Several churches in our
Posted on: 02/22/2012 15:50
Several churches in our presbytery are getting together to offer all non-Sunday services. For each occasion, two services will be offered - one traditional and one contemporary. The churches will take turns hosting and ministers from several congregations will share in the leadership of each worship. Today we have services at 4PM (traditional) and 6PM (contemporary). I will be attending the later one, partially because I will still be at work for the first one. I hope that I will leave the service with a feeling that I have entered into Lent.
rishi
crazyheart wrote: What do
Posted on: 02/23/2012 09:36
What do you receive from this service?
For me, it's a vehicle that God uses to empower us to be more honest about our vulnerability as human beings. Truth in the Ashes.
Tabitha
The congregation i'm a member
Posted on: 02/23/2012 16:34
The congregation i'm a member of had a 7pm serice. About 10 people showed up. Music-trumpet, nots that were burned-then mixed with oil and crosses drawn on forheads or hands.
It was a magical moment when our minister lit the notes aflame with a candle. Ashes flew up above her head and she looked like a wizard in her robe stirring our sins away!