From New Hampshire-Episcopal clergy plan to hit the street in Concord to offer ashes to pedestrians today, which is Ash Wednesday, the start of the 40-day season of Lent.
The Episcopal bishop, the Right Rev. A. Robert Hirschfeld, and three other Episcopal ministers will take part of Ashes to Go, a nationwide program designed to mark the foreheads of Christians who don’t have the time or forgot to attend a service, according to the website ashestogo.org.
They will be at the State House Plaza from noon to 2 p.m.“It has been a long and grueling winter. The ashes on Ash Wednesday could be seen as the hope for Mud Season,” Hirschfeld said in a statement. Last year, more than 70 Episcopal parishes in 18 states took part in Ashes to Go.
Catholics and Christians of Western churches begin Lent today. They are urged to abstain from certain foods, give more to charity and pray.
“Take up the exercise of prayer again. Get up! Get to Mass! And don’t just let it happen — pray your brains out,” Catholic Bishop Peter A. Libasci said in prepared remarks.
More here-
http://www.unionleader.com/article/20140305/NEWS08/140309628
and New Jersey-
http://planetprinceton.com/2014/03/04/episcopal-diocese-new-jersey-observe-ash-wednesday-ashes-go/
and Arizona-
http://www.kpho.com/story/24890097/az-episcopal-churches-offer-ashes-to-go
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