by Andrew Cameron-Mowat, SJ.
“The Prayer over the People from which this phrase comes was heard for the first time at the end of Mass on Ash Wednesday this February. The prayer illustrates two of the issues that have emerged from the use of the new translation of the Missal…”
Posts Tagged Ash Wednesday
“A Spirit of Compunction”?
Mar 25
Drive through ashes?
Feb 22
“We have two entrances and one exit,” Rev. Patricia Cook said. “So we should be able to do this fairly quickly.”
This year, I will be joining many Episcopal priests in taking the public witness of Ash Wednesday one step further. On Wednesday, my colleague Catherine Caimano and I will put on cassocks and surplices, and go to a corner near Duke University Hospital with small containers of ashes and copies of a litany of repentance from the Book of Common Prayer. We will offer “the imposition of ashes” to people in the street.
“The Church does not recognize the child’s ability deliberately to commit sin that is in need of repentance until the age of ‘reason’ (age 7).”
Repentance. Renewal. Community.
Praying. Fasting. Giving.
Almost seems too easy, no?
The Point of Fasting
Mar 9
Perhaps I am simply an incurable hedonist, but thinking of the Lenten fast as an occasion for moral and spiritual improvement strikes me as profoundly wrong.
“Please try not to rub off your ashes as soon as you leave church, but take the sign of the cross to all those that you meet – in your school, office, factory, wherever you may be.”
. . . and more ashes
Feb 3
“This won’t hurt, and it might do some good.”
Ashes
Feb 3
Preparing ministers to assist in the distribution of ashes is a spiritual opportunity as well as a practical one.