Here is a list of Ash Wednesday services and offerings of Ashes to Go by congregations of the Episcopal Church in North Texas, including a special Ash Wednesday children’s service at 4:30 pm at Trinity Episcopal Church, Fort Worth, outdoors in the garden EPISCOPAL CHURCHES ARLINGTONħ pm Ash Wednesday service with music and communion. It will allow us to step into and walk through Lent focused on the hope of Easter. It can remind us that even in the wilderness, we never are alone. Lent is a season of reflection, offering us a time to acknowledge the austerity of the pandemic while exploring hope, grace, courage, resilience, grief, and anger, not necessarily in that order.
Ash Wednesday takes on an added poignancy as we sit with the knowledge that Covid 19 has claimed the lives of more than one million Americans since the start of the pandemic.Ĭountless more have been affected by the loss of family members and friends, the loss of jobs, the impact on schooling, and on daily life. In recent years, because of the Covid 19 pandemic, we have had daily reminders of our mortality. This ancient ritual links us to countless generations who have turned humbly to God for help in absorbing the knowledge of our inevitable death in a way that will shape our living.Īs always, the Ash Wednesday liturgy will mark the beginning of forty days of sitting with the knowledge of our mortality, knowledge twinned with the astonishing news of our redemption. On Ash Wednesday, Episcopalians, along with many other Christians in different traditions, wear a smudgy cross of ash on our foreheads to remind us of our mortality. The Christian Season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and continues for 40 days (not counting Sundays) before culminating in Holy Week and Easter Sunday.
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