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Ash Wednesday Worship

When:
22 February 2023 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
2023-02-22T19:00:00+11:00
2023-02-22T20:30:00+11:00
Where:
SYCBaps Cyber Chapel
online only
Contact:
SYCBaps
(+61 3) 9827 7900
Ash Wednesday Worship @ SYCBaps Cyber Chapel | South Yarra | Victoria | Australia

Ash Wednesday is the beginning of the season of Lent, and it sets the tone for the season by calling us to confront our own mortality and our own entanglement in the webs of sin and corruption that cripple our world.

Like all our worship gatherings, this service happens online, but it is far from just a streamed telecast. It is a highly participatory inclusive and healing blend of ancient and modern spiritual practices. For details of how our online liturgies are working and how to connect and participate, see this page.

All welcome, regardless of age, race, religion, capability, sexual identity, or immigration status.

The service is an inclusive and healing blend of ancient and modern spiritual practices, and all are welcome, regardless of age, race, religion, capability, sexual identity, or immigration status.

To prepare your ashes  for the service here is our easy recipe. You don’t need much. For one person, the ash of 3 fully burnt matches is plenty. Get a small fire-proof dish or a piece of aluminium foil. Light your three matches and let them burn. Before they burn your fingers, place them into your dish or foil, and angle it so that they keep burning. When they have burned out, use the back of a spoon to crush the burnt matches into a fine powder, and there you have it – ashes ready to go. If there are several of you, add a few more matches. When it is time to apply them, just rub a finger tip into the ash and use it to draw a cross on your forehead (or the back of your hand). If you moisten the tip of your finger first, you will get a stronger darker cross.

Bible Readings for Worship on Ash Wednesday 
Joel 2:1-2, 12-17 or Isaiah 58:1-12
Psalm 51:1-17
2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10
Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21