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Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday begins the 40 days of Lent. 40 is a significant number for Christians. Jesus spent 40 days in a desert. Noah had to wait 40 days for his ark to float & Moses, along with his followers, traveled through the wilderness for 40 years before reaching the Promised Land.

Ash Wednesday Ash Wednesday marks the solemn beginning of Lent in the Christian calendar — a sacred season of prayer, fasting, and reflection leading up to Easter. On this day, believers receive a cross of ashes on their foreheads as a visible reminder of human mortality and the call to repentance. Rooted in ancient biblical tradition, Ash Wednesday invites Christians to pause, turn inward, and…

Day 1: In the beginning was the Word

Day 2: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth

Day 3: Wherefore, as by one man sin entered

Day 4: And the LORD God said unto the serpent

Day 5: And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed

Day 6: For the law having a shadow of good things to come 

Day 7: I will set up thy seed 

Day 8: Therefore the LORD himself shall give you a sign

Day 9: And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse 

Day 10: But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah  

Day 11: But this shall be the covenant

Day 12: Behold, I will send my messenger

Day 13: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners

Day 14: Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise 

Day 15: And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God 

Day 16: For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour 

Day 17: Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea 

Day 18: Behold the Lamb of God

Day 19: So must the Son of Man be lifted up 

Day 20: As many as received Him 

Day 21: A bruised reed shall he not break

Day 22: Not to be ministered unto, but to minister

Day 23: Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses

Day 24: Behold, thy King cometh unto thee

Day 25: This is the first and great commandment

Day 26: She is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying

Day 27: This is my blood of the new testament

Day 28: Greater love hath no man than this

Day 29: They also, whom thou hast given me

Day 30: How then shall the scriptures be fulfilled

Day 31: And they all condemned him to be guilty of death

Day 32: It is finished

Day 33: The veil of the temple was rent in twain

Day 34: He is not here, but is risen

Day 35: Jesus Christ: Alive and With Us to the End

Day 36: While they beheld, he was taken up

Day 37: This is the stone which was set at nought

Day 38: All the Promises of God in Him are yea

Day 39: I am the root and the offspring of David

Day 40: The Spirit and the Bride say Come

Thine is the glory, risen, conqu'ring Son; endless is the vict'ry Thou o’er death hast won. Angels in bright raiment rolled the stone away, kept the folded grave-clothes where Thy body lay.

Thine be the glory, risen, conqu'ring Son; endless is the vict'ry Thou o’er death hast won.

Lo, Jesus meets us, risen from the tomb. Lovingly He greets us, scatters fear and gloom; let His church with gladness hymns of triumph sing, for the Lord now liveth; death hath lost its sting.

Thine be the glory, risen, conqu'ring Son; endless is the vict'ry Thou o’er death hast won.

No more we doubt Thee, glorious Prince of life!! Life is nought without Thee; aid us in our strife; make us more than conqu'rors, through Thy deathless love; bring us safe through Jordan to Thy home above.

Thine be the glory, risen, conqu'ring Son; endless is the vict'ry Thou o’er death hast won.

- Edmund Budry, Richard Birch Hoyle

And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

Revelation 22:17