Ash Wednesday (2)
09/04/19 10:30
INVITATION TO THE OBSERVANCE OF LENTEN DISCIPLINE
We come,
Following our Lord into the desert.
Where faith collides with doubt
And our certainties seem but sand.
We come,
On this first day of Lenten discipline
As pilgrim saints have always done,
To submit to the glare of the Light
And the wonders of the night.
We come
To seek fresh understanding
Of our calling
By study, reflection, prayer and fasting.
On this strange day
We prepare to walk again with you
To the death that leads to resurrection
With our mortality in sharp relief
We come.
But we are not alone
There are footprints in the sand
You also, come.
You come,
So this is holy ground.
And, as a mark of our mortal nature,
Let us now bow, in silence,
before our Creator and Redeemer.
We come,
Following our Lord into the desert.
Where faith collides with doubt
And our certainties seem but sand.
We come,
On this first day of Lenten discipline
As pilgrim saints have always done,
To submit to the glare of the Light
And the wonders of the night.
We come
To seek fresh understanding
Of our calling
By study, reflection, prayer and fasting.
On this strange day
We prepare to walk again with you
To the death that leads to resurrection
With our mortality in sharp relief
We come.
But we are not alone
There are footprints in the sand
You also, come.
You come,
So this is holy ground.
And, as a mark of our mortal nature,
Let us now bow, in silence,
before our Creator and Redeemer.