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Ash Wednesday 2021 Sermon by Vicar Stuart Goodin

There is something deeply ironic and odd about what we do today/tonight. We hear Jesus in our Gospel reading telling us not to practice our piety in ways visible to others and not to disfigure our faces but to wash them, on the one day we would consider disfiguring our faces publicly to go from here bearing an ashen cross.

There is a deep irony and oddness within 21^st century society too. On the one hand we fill our lives with things that are fake: we may decorate our homes with fake plants and flowers; we sit at desks and on chairs that are made from a material that pretends to be wood; as tourists we pay to experience what is often merely a constructed representation of the culture or environment we’ve gone to explore; we may work to carefully curate an online identity that bears little resemblance to how we actually look and think and feel... Read more...

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