Ash Wednesday | Church of the Cross

Join us at 6:00pm on February 17th near Kenmore Square

We begin the season of Lent together with an Ash Wednesday service. During the season of Lent, we prepare ourselves to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus on Easter. Lent is a time of introspection and contemplation, a rare thing for busy urban people. We enter into this season with the practice of placing ashes on our foreheads and proclaiming to one another, "remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Sometimes it is good to remember that we are nothing more than dust...