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More Private and Public — on the paradox of Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday invites us to confront both life and death, reconciliation and condemnation, hope and despair and dare ourselves to not look away.
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Of remembering death and life
On Ash Wednesday, we remember that we are dust, that we are of the earth and will return to it, in a communal activity of living.
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Public Prayer
The gospel for Ash Wednesday invites us to rethink praying in public. And what it is we’re really going on about.
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Public Piety and the Pandemic
With or without the opportunity to have ashes put on our foreheads, we are invited to join in something important.