Ash Wednesday: "Create In Me A Clean Heart, O God"

On February 17th, we celebrated Ash Wednesday.  This day marks the beginning of Lent, which lasts 40 days and ends on Easter Sunday. Psalm 51, the traditional Psalm for the day, gave us the theme for our worship gathering: "Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me" (Psalm 51:10, NRSV).   Here are some images from our worship gathering at Raleigh Moravian.

 

The cover from the Bulletin for the evening.  

 

The entrance to the Sanctuary and the candles we used at the end of Worship to burn anything we wanted to put on the slip of paper in order to enter Lent with clean hearts.

The front of the Sanctuary before worship.

The candles in the tub after we burned our confessions.

The front communion table in the Sanctuary.

The front communion table with the candles and palm branches reminding us of the palms from Palm Sunday last year which are then traditionally used to create the ashes for Ash Wednesday.