Sunday, March 6, 2016 - Fourth Sunday in Lent

Worship: 8 & 10:45 am

Readings: Josh. 5:9-12; Ps. 32; 2 Cor. 5:16-21; Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

Gospel Acclamation:   I will arise and go to my father and say, I have sinned against heaven and before you. (Luke 15:8)

"Only after we have gone to the depths of self-knowledge and known the hell we have fashioned for ourselves, only when we can love with an identification with the other, can we begin to rise again. Perhaps wearing ashes as we launch our Lent is not so much

a statement that we are 'nothing but' ashes, as it is the gesture that brings us 'down to earth'.

                        Gertrud Mueller Nelson, To Dance With God

• In the Anglican Church this is "Midlenting" or "Mothering" Sunday, and is celebrated with Simnel Cake and visits. http://www.fullhomelydivinity.org/Lenten customs.htm