Your Ashes are Showing

(NOTE: This edition is from the evening service where Katie also used a Children's Moment) This is our annual Ash Wednesday Service of the Imposition of Ashes as we begin the season of Lent. Katie Minnis delivers the homily, beginning with how angry she had recently become at someone she doesn’t know who posted something she disagreed with on social media. She cites Paul’s directions to the Corinthians writing that things that have the potential to divide us also can unite us. Paul’s list of hardships are reminiscent of things we have endured in the recent pandemic. Ash Wednesday is a day for recognizing our human frailty through ashes. Seeing our own ashes is a way to realize our deep need for grace as well as an aid to identify the needs of others.