My 98 year old Auntie Eliza died last night and we had a late night so I almost forgot that today is a Wednesday and time for
What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday. My main desk did not stay tidy for long and even my prayer desk is filled. There is a book about Jesus that we are studying, my copy of
The Word Among Us and one of my prayer journal illustrations, just in time for Ash Wednesday today...
"Ash Wednesday, a day of fasting, is the first day of Lent in Western Christianity... Ashes are ceremonially placed on the heads of Christians on Ash Wednesday, more often by being marked on their foreheads as a visible cross. The words used traditionally to accompany this gesture are:
Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
In the 1969 revision of the Roman Rite, an alternative formula was introduced and given first place:
Repent, and believe in the Gospel.
The old formula, based on the words spoken to Adam and Eve after their sin, reminds worshippers of their sinfulness and mortality and thus, implicitly, of their need to repent in time." -
Wikipedia
Last Sunday, it was the first death anniversary of my Mom, and on Monday we were back in the same hospital where she died to bring my Auntie. Indeed, we are dust and to dust we shall return. A blessed Lenten season to you, if you celebrate the season.
