THE WORD OF GOD
Hebrew 4:12 For the word of God is quick (living), and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner (judge) of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
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It may strike you as odd that on Ash Wednesday we read a passage from Jesus’s sermon on the Mount, in which he warns us not to be like the hypocrites who, when they fast, adopt a sad countenance and disfigure their faces so they may appear to be fasting. After all, we have just smeared ashes on our foreheads to mark the beginning of Holy Lent, (a practice dating back to ancient times).
Our collect from the first Sunday of Lent:
“O God, who year by year through this Lenten observance dost cleanse and renew thy Church: grant unto us thy servants; that as by abstinence we strive to win thy pardon, so by good works we may effectually obtain the same….”
