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Tonight’s Gospel speaks of not disfiguring your faces on the very day when we disfigure our faces. What are we to make of that?  To answer that, there’s another question that must be asked: When Jesus said these words, did He mean to say that no one should ever use ashes? If so, what then of the king of Nineveh? You’ll recall that when the word of the prophet Jonah, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”  reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne and l

“You are dust, and to dust you shall return.” With every year, indeed, with every day, you are drawing closer to the realization of this...

Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Beloved, your treasure is Christ. And your heart must be stayed always and only on...

February 14, 2024 -- Divine Service with the Imposition of Ashes