![]() "No," I said, "it's a church thing." And so it is. ![]() "Is it some kind of sorority hazing thing?" "I've seen a lot of people with those marks on their forehead today," she asked. When the service was over-having heard a reading from Joel 2, recited Psalm 51, prayed for forgiveness, and received Communion-I went out into the bright noon sunshine and got on the bus that would take me across campus to my next class. Amen." Then he dipped his thumb in a small dish of ashes and, with the words "Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return," marked the sign of the cross on my forehead. ![]() He prayed, "Almighty God, you have created us out of the dust of the earth: Grant that these ashes may be to us a sign of our mortality and penitence, that we may remember that it is only by your gracious gift that we are given everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Savior. ![]() In the darkness of the quiet stone church on Ash Wednesday, I went forward to the front at the end of a long line and, when my turn came, knelt before the pastor. ![]()
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