Ash Wednesday Service

"Remember man that you are dust and to dust you shall return".

     Those are the words we all know well as the words spoken by the priest as ashes are made in the sign of a cross on our foreheads on Ash Wednesday.
     In his homily Abbot Theodore said that while these words remind us of our mortality, their meaning is transformed by the symbol of the cross made on our foreheads. The Cross is the sign of life that is used to mark us just like at our baptism and confirmation. The Cross is the Good News of our Salvation transforming us and overcoming our mortality.