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Please join us for Ash Wednesday Service.For United Methodists (UMC), Ash Wednesday marks the solemn start of Lent, a 40-day journey of spiritual discipline, repentance, and preparation for Easter, focusing on human sinfulness and mortality but ultimately pointing to hope in Christ's resurrection. Services often involve ministers marking foreheads with ashes (from burned palm branches) in the shape of a cross, symbolizing our dust-to-dust mortality, with the promise of redemption through Jesus' sacrifice. It's a time to reflect, confess, and realign with God, often through fasting or giving something up, remembering we are loved and freed from sin by Christ.
Ashes are an ancient symbol. In Genesis, we read that God formed human beings out of the dust of the earth (Genesis 2:7). After expulsion from the Garden of Eden, the first human beings are told by God, “you are dust, and to dust you shall return” (Genesis 3:19 NRSV). The Hebrew word translated dust, is occasionally translated ashes elsewhere. Throughout scripture, ashes are part of rituals when people seek forgiveness and mourn their sin (see Numbers 19:9, 17; Hebrews 9:13; Jonah 3:6; Matthew 11:21, and Luke 10:13, among others).
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