Ash Wednesday
ALMIGHTY God, who does not hate anything that you have made, and forgives the sins of everyone who is sorry; Give us a sorry heart, that we may regret our sins and things we have done wrong, so that we can be forgiven completely by you, O God of all mercy; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
This is a day when people ask for forgiveness and give up something for 40 days to remember Jesus in the Wilderness. It starts the Great Fast of Lent
"Yet even now," says the Lord, "return to Me with all your heart, crying in sorrow and eating no food. 13 Tear your heart and not your clothes." Return to the Lord your God, for He is full of loving-kindness and loving-pity. He is slow to anger, full of love, and ready to keep His punishment from you. 14 It may be that He will turn and have pity, and leave good behind for you. He may leave you a grain gift and a drink gift for the Lord your God. 15 Blow a horn in Zion. Set apart a time when no food will be eaten. Call together a holy meeting. 16 Gather the people and make them holy. Gather together the leaders, the children, and the nursing babies. Let the man to be married come out of his room, and the bride come out of her room. 17 Let the religious leaders who serve the Lord cry between the porch and the altar. Let them say, "Have pity on Your people, O Lord. Do not put your people to shame. And do not make the nations speak against them. Why should the people of the nations say, 'Where is their God?' "
[New Life Bible]
the first day of Lent
*** Joel 2:12 ***
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