The Creep of Mortality

Ash Wednesday

Scripture

Old Testament: Joel 2:1-2, 12-17 or Isaiah 58:1-12

Psalter: Psalm 51:1-17

Epistle: 2 Corinthians 5:20b—6:10

Gospel: Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

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Prayer

Righteous God, in humility and repentance we bring our failures in caring, helping, and loving, we bring the pain we have caused other, we bring the injustice in society of which we are a part, to the tra…