Ash Wednesday

On Ash Wednesday (March 2), the Church calls its members throughout the world to begin their observance of a holy Lent—a season of 40 days that leads to the celebration of our Lord's Passion and resurrection on Easter.

There will be two services: one spoken service at 12:00pm and a choral service at 6:00pm (which will also be live-streamed on Saint Philip’s website).

The liturgy of Ash Wednesday is solemn, shaped by elements of penitence and fasting. The distinctive element of the liturgy is the act of marking on our foreheads the sign of the cross with ash, made from the embers of last year’s Palm Sunday palm fronds, with the disquieting exhortation, “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”