Ad Clerum on Ash Wednesday from Bishop Martyn Minns
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By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return. (Genesis 3:19)
Ash Wednesday
Reflections on the Start of Lent
Bishop Alex Cameron
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 12:00pm
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So it’s Lent. And what is Lent, anyway? We might perhaps think of it as that annual morose and mopey time of year, marked by giving up some treasured food or habit, that engenders a sense of holy deprivation which is supposed to be good for us. But neither moping nor deprivation is the point, nor the true value.