Tag Archives: Ash Wednesday
February 14, 2024, What Is a Holy Lent?, Isaiah 58:1-12 and Matthew 6:1-6,16-21 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. Today is the first day of Lent. Our liturgy for this day issues an invitation to us: “I invite you, therefore, in the name of the Church, to the observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting, and …
February 26, 2020, Ash Wednesday, The God Who Sees in Secret – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
There is no recording available for this sermon. Jesus is teaching about “practicing piety”, by which he means those works we do that are specifically religious. As a Jewish teacher, he focuses on three practices: giving alms, or charity; prayer; and fasting, because those are the three main practices of piety in Judaism. But Jesus …
March 1, 2017, Ash Wednesday – It’s Quiet Out There – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
No recording is available for this sermon. Preachers and writers, people like me, are very fond of using the image of the desert when they talk about Lent. It’s a good image for several reasons. One reason is that the forty days of Lent remind us of the forty years the people of Israel spent …
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