[Apologetics] Fw: ChristianHistory.net: Ashes to Ashes

Sat Feb 13 21:12:21 EST 2010

This is a fairly good Protestant explanation of Ash Wednesday.

Art
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From: Christian History Newsletter <history-html at lists.christianitytoday.com>
Subject: ChristianHistory.net: Ashes to Ashes
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Date: Saturday, February 13, 2010, 10:00 AM

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In the darkness of the quiet stone church on Ash Wednesday, I went forward to the front at the end of a long line and, when my turn came, knelt before the pastor. He prayed, "Almighty God, you have created us out of the dust of the earth: Grant that these ashes may be to us a sign of our mortality and penitence, that we may remember that it is only by your gracious gift that we are given everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen." Then he dipped his thumb in a small dish of ashes and, with the words "Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return," marked the sign of the cross on my forehead. 

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