Tag: Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday Service

Please join us for an Ash Wednesday service on March 6th at 7PM. Ash Wednesday marks the start of the holy season of Lent, a time for reflection and repentance in preparation for the celebration of Easter. For centuries, Christians have received a cross of ashes on the face...

Ash Wednesday, February 14

Ash Wednesday – February 14th Please join us for an Ash Wednesday service on February 14th at 7:00pm. Ash Wednesday marks the start of the holy season of Lent, a time for reflection and repentance in preparation for the celebration of Easter. For centuries, Christians have received a cross...

Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday Service Please join us on Wednesday, March 1st at 7:00pm at Holy Trinity for an Ash Wednesday Service with imposition of ashes, and music provided by Ariose Women’s Choir. In the Christian tradition, Ash Wednesday marks the start of the holy season of Lent, a time for...

Ashes to Go

On February 10, 2016, Ash Wednesday, the Anglican Diocese of Edmonton will offer “Ashes to Go” – a new approach to a centuries-old Christian tradition. This is the sixth year the Edmonton diocese has joined an international movement to offer ashes, along with God’s love and mercy, to people at...

An Invitation to the Observance of a Holy Lent

Dear People of God: The first Christians observed with great devotion the days of our Lord’s passion and resurrection, and it became the custom of the Church to prepare for them by a season of penitence and fasting. This season of Lent provided a time in which converts to the faith were...

Ashes to Go on Whyte – 2013

Last year on Ash Wednesday from 11 AM to 2 PM, Fr. Jonathan, Rev. Sue from St. George’s, Walter Scott and I did something new for Edmonton: we took ashes outside of our church buildings and offered them to people on the streets. Of all the days in the...