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Presbyterians have begun to reclaim the tradition of Ash Wednesday, using it as a way to focus on our mortality and prepare us for Easter.
Our congregation has traditionally not held an Ash Wednesday service, but has accepted the ecumenical invitation of Mary Immaculate Catholic Church to join them.
An Ash Wednesday service from:
🔗PC(USA) Book of Common Worship (2018) Ash Wednesday Liturgy
Our Book of Common Worship is authoritative but not constitutional, that is, it's commended for our use, not required, and it does not carry the same binding authority as the Book of Confessions or the Book of Order.
“Those who so desire may come forward to receive an imposition of ashes as a sign of penitence not only for our individual sin, but also in recognition of our complicity in the sin of the world.”
The Common Worship Book model is based upon The Liturgy of the French Protestant Church, Neuchatel, 1732 and 1772 eds., trans. and arranged for the use of the congregation in Charleston, SC (New York: Charles M. Cornwell, 1869.
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