Ash Wednesday services will be conducted at a variety of churches today, marking the beginning of the Lenten period.
Lent is the 40 days before Easter when the Christian church reflects on its sinfulness and Christ's sacrifice, said Brian Hesse, senior pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church.
"The church has traditionally used ashes, which are placed in the sign of the cross on a person's forehead, and that symbolizes the fact that Scriptures say, 'We are dust and to dust we will return,' " Hesse said, citing Genesis 3:19.
Ashes, an Old Testament sign of repentance for sin, are made from the burned palms from the previous year's Palm Sunday service and mixed with olive oil, which is what the early church would have used, he said.
Ash Wednesday Services
7 a.m., 12:15 p.m., 6 p.m. - St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church, 4100 S. Coulter St.
7 a.m., 9 a.m., 12:10 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7 p.m. - St. Mary's Catholic Church, 1200 S. Washington St.
8:30 a.m., 7 p.m. - St. Joseph Catholic Church, 4122 S. Bonham St.
Noon - Covenant Fellowship Church, 1731 S. Avondale St. Sandwich lunch follows.
Noon - Mass, J.A. Hill Chapel, West Texas A&M University, Canyon.
6 p.m. - Polk Street United Methodist Church, 1401 S. Polk St.
6:30 p.m. - St. Stephen United Methodist Church, 4600 S. Western St. Nursery.
6:30 p.m. - Westminster Presbyterian, 2525 Wimberly Road.
7 p.m. - Trinity Lutheran Church, 5005 W. Interstate 40. Nursery.
7 p.m. - St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 4714 N.W. Fourth Ave. 7 p.m. - Staff Writer Cheryl Berzanskis
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