from transfiguration to ashes

Beloved Ones,

Please pray with us on Sunday, February 27th as the season of Epiphany concludes with Christ’s Transfiguration on the mountaintop. 

As we follow with great concern the news from Ukraine, it is so important to be together, to pray in community.  Let us raise our hearts and minds and souls together to God with prayers for peace. 
Transfiguration, a moment of glory, is also the prelude to the cross, as we look forward to Ash Wednesday and the season of Lent.  The Collect for Transfiguration Sunday prays:

“O God, who before the passion of your only-begotten Son revealed his glory upon the holy mountain: Grant to us that we, beholding by faith the light of his countenance, may be strengthened to bear our cross, and be changed into his likeness from glory to glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.”

As COVID numbers continue to decline around us, we do invite you to return to the Sanctuary according to your own comfort. 

Also, join us on Wednesday, March 2nd at 6:30 PM for the Imposition of Ashes and Holy Eucharist - as our Choir also rejoins us following a time of hiatus.  Again, the Collect of the day:   

“Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing you have made and forgive the sins of all who are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of you, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.”

We will invite those praying with us virtually to make their own sign of penitence, while those in the Sanctuary will receive ashes with these words:  “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” 

Remember also that God loves us, every step of the way on this journey from the mountaintop to Jerusalem, from glory to the cross.
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Faithfully, Rev. Andrea