![]() ![]() I invite you, therefore, to observe a holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance by prayer, fasting, and self-denial and my reading and meditating on God's holy word. In course of time the Church came to recognize that, by careful keeping of these days, all Christians might take heart the call to repentance and the assurance of forgiveness proclaimed in the gospel, and so grow in faith and in devotion to our Lord. ![]() It became the custom of the Church to prepare for this by a season of penitence and fasting.Īt first this season of Lent was observed by those who were preparing for Baptism at Easter and by those who were to be restored to the Church's fellowship from which they had been separated through sin. The theme of the day is penitential, including prayers of confession and reading of Psalm 51.īrother and sisters in Christ: since early days Christians have observed with great devotion the time of our Lord's passion and resurrection. The worshipper hears the words “Dust you are and to dust you shall return”. The 2004 Church of Ireland Prayer Book includes the following exhortation on Ash Wednesday: Many churches include in their liturgical observance the rite of imposition of ashes. ![]()
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