Ash Wednesday 5th March, Eucharist & Imposition of Ashes 3pm⚱️

for 1 hour
Salinas Anglican Congregation
Church of the Sagrado Corazón de Maria, Estacion de Salinas, Archidona, Málaga Province, 29315, Spain

Ash Wednesday marks the first day of Lent, the six weeks of penitence before Easter. It is celebrated with a special service, at which churchgoers receive ash on their foreheads, prepared by burning palm crosses from the previous year's Palm Sunday. As the priest places the ashes on each person´s forehead, s/he says the words, "Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

So what´s behind this? In preparation for Easter, Lent is a time to be honest with ourselves and with our God. So on Ash Wednesday we think about where we have failed, where we have been hypocritical - saying one thing and doing another. The ashes are there as a kind of public statement, that those who receive them are prepared to make a commitment to try to live their lives more honestly and truthfully.

And it´s not easy: it is often so much easier to pretend, to go along with the crowd, to play act. It is, after all, from the language of the Greek theatre that the word "hypocrisy" was derived.

Salinas Anglican Congregation

WELCOME TO THE SALINAS ANGLICAN CONGREGATION THIS EASTERTIDE🌾

At Easter, and for the five weeks afterwards, we celebrate the the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.

When Jesus died on Good Friday, his disciples scattered - confused, fearful, without direction, without a future. But the absence of a body on Easter Sunday was altogether different. Now they saw Jesus everywhere – in the garden, on the road to Emmaus, as they fished, as they gathered together. And not as some spooky ghost of the past, but as the recognisable presence of the Son of God, risen from the dead. This is what we are celebrating this Eastertide – our God, real, alive, recognisable and present. 

Martin Luther wrote: “Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime”. He has also written that promise on every human heart.

You will find details of our services through Easter to Pentecost here.


Listen to Surrexit Christus, an Easter song from the Taizé Community in France.

For more information about the Salinas Anglican Congregation, visit our website: http://www.salinaschurch.es

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Ash Wednesday 5th March, Eucharist & Imposition of Ashes 3pm⚱️

for 1 hour
Salinas Anglican Congregation
Church of the Sagrado Corazón de Maria, Estacion de Salinas, Archidona, Málaga Province, 29315, Spain

Ash Wednesday marks the first day of Lent, the six weeks of penitence before Easter. It is celebrated with a special service, at which churchgoers receive ash on their foreheads, prepared by burning palm crosses from the previous year's Palm Sunday. As the priest places the ashes on each person´s forehead, s/he says the words, "Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

So what´s behind this? In preparation for Easter, Lent is a time to be honest with ourselves and with our God. So on Ash Wednesday we think about where we have failed, where we have been hypocritical - saying one thing and doing another. The ashes are there as a kind of public statement, that those who receive them are prepared to make a commitment to try to live their lives more honestly and truthfully.

And it´s not easy: it is often so much easier to pretend, to go along with the crowd, to play act. It is, after all, from the language of the Greek theatre that the word "hypocrisy" was derived.

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