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Showing posts with label Ash Wednesday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ash Wednesday. Show all posts
Ash Wednesday - Liturgy
1. "I Will Serve"
Greeting
The peace and reconciliation of the merciful Father be always with you. R/ And also with you.
Ash Wednesday - Liturgy
AWAY WITH ALL MARKS
Greeting
The peace and reconciliation
of the merciful Father
be always with you. R/ And also with you.
Introduction by the Celebrant
In many regions of the world people celebrate carnival in the days before Lent with much noise and merrymaking. Often they wear masks for the occasion. But today Lent begins, the time to put off our masks and to turn our face and heart to God and to people. In this holy season we reflect on the true meaning of our lives. Who am I and what am I living for? Am I living for God and the community? We shall be invited to receive ashes on our foreheads with the invitation, "Turn away from sin and be faithful to the gospel." Away, then, with all masks and return to God, to your true self and to one another as God's people.
Note. The penitential rite is omitted, since the rite of the ashes is a rite of penance and conversion.
Ash Wednesday 2018
1. From Fr. Tony Kadavil’s Collection
Introduction
Ash Wednesday (dies cinerum) is the Church’s Yom Kippur or the “Day of Atonement.” Its very name comes from the Jewish practice of doing penance wearing “sackcloth and ashes.” In the early Church, Christians who had committed serious sins were instructed to do public penance wearing sackcloth and ashes. Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of full fast and abstinence. Fasting is prescribed to reinforce our penitential prayer during the Lenten season. The prophet Joel, in the first reading, insists that we should experience a complete conversion of heart and not simply sorrow for our sins. Saint Paul in the second reading advises us “to become reconciled to God.” Today’s gospel instructs us to assimilate the true spirit of fasting and prayer.
Ash Wednesday - Liturgy
Greeting
The peace and reconciliation
of the merciful Father
be always with you. R/ And also with you.
Introduction by the Celebrant
In many regions of the world people celebrate carnival in the days before Lent with much noise and merrymaking. Often they wear masks for the occasion. But today Lent begins, the time to put off our masks and to turn our face and heart to God and to people. In this holy season we reflect on the true meaning of our lives. Who am I and what am I living for? Am I living for God and the community? We shall be invited to receive ashes on our foreheads with the invitation, "Turn away from sin and be faithful to the gospel." Away, then, with all masks and return to God, to your true self and to one another as God's people.
Note. The penitential rite is omitted, since the rite of the ashes is a rite of penance and conversion.
Ash Wednesday
1. From Fr. Tony Kadavil’s Collection
Introduction
Ash Wednesday (dies cinerum) is the Church’s Yom
Kippur or the “Day of Atonement.” Its very name comes from the Jewish
practice of doing penance wearing “sackcloth and ashes.” In the early
Church, Christians who had committed serious sins were instructed to do public
penance wearing sackcloth and ashes. Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of
full fast and abstinence. Fasting is prescribed to reinforce our penitential
prayer during the Lenten season. The prophet Joel, in the first reading,
insists that we should experience a complete conversion of heart and not simply
sorrow for our sins. Saint Paul in the second reading advises us “to become
reconciled to God.” Today’s gospel instructs us to assimilate the true spirit
of fasting and prayer.
Ash Wednesday - 2015
1. From Fr. Tony Kadavil’s Collection
Introduction
Ash Wednesday (dies cinerum) is the Church’s Yom Kippur
or the “Day of Atonement.” Its very name comes from the Jewish practice of
doing penance wearing “sackcloth and ashes.” In the early Church,
Christians who had committed serious sins were instructed to do public penance
wearing sackcloth and ashes. Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of full
fast and abstinence. Fasting is prescribed to reinforce our penitential prayer
during the Lenten season. The prophet Joel, in the first reading, insists that
we should experience a complete conversion of heart and not simply sorrow for
our sins. Saint Paul in the second reading advises us “to become reconciled to
God.” Today’s gospel instructs us to assimilate the true spirit of fasting and
prayer.
Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday Reflection: What It
Means to Be Human
The voice said to me: Human one, stand on your feet, and I’ll speak to you.
The voice said to me: Human one, stand on your feet, and I’ll speak to you.
In the Common English Bible, the Lord addresses Ezekiel as “Human one.”
Most English translations prefer the traditional “Son of man” instead of “Human
one.” This is a more literal rendering of the Hebrew ben-adam. But the
CEB rightly represents the sense of the Hebrew phrase. “Son of man” in this
context means “human being” or “human one.” The Lord is not giving Ezekiel some
special title, but addressing him in his humanness.
Ash Wednesday 2013-Homily and Stories
ASH WEDNESDAY
When I was in grade school, I remember Ash Wednesday as a
melancholy day. The sisters who taught
us were unusually somber and whispery to us that day. It felt like Ash Wednesday, with its marked
foreheads and meager meals, signaled the beginning of a long period of giving
up candy – and some feeling that we were all lost.
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