Tag: ash wednesday

This Ash Wednesday many Christians will arrive at work with a black cross smudged on their foreheads; countless more will slip into a church or a chapel during their lunch break or after work to receive the sign that tells the arrival of the traditional start of the Christian season of Lent.

Area places of worship are finding creative ways to offer Ash Wednesday services this year.

The day that begins the Lenten season is called Ash Wednesday. Here are four things to know about it.

This is what Shedlock wants church to be like – fun, creative, communal, messy. That’s why four months ago she started “the Studio” – a congregation described on social media as a “queer-celebrating, whiteness-deconstructing, empire-destabilizing, radically joyful, wildly creative, courageously nonviolent, beautifully redemptive community of Jesus-followers, truth-seekers, and beauty-lovers, for people who are tired of religious (B.S.) and in search of a spiritual home.”

Immaculate Heart Retreat Center will be hosting an Ash Wednesday Silent Day of Prayer on March 1. The event is titled “Give Up or Give In” and will be directed by Fr. Philip Garcia, OFM.

A New York-based advocacy group called Parity is asking Christians who favor LGBT equality — “queer positive Christians,” in their parlance — to show their support by wearing “glitter ash” on their foreheads to mark Ash Wednesday (March 1).

Ash Wednesday is one of the services in which I break down every year (All Saints’ Day is the other guaranteed tear jerker).