Anniversaries and Thresholds – Calvary Episcopal Church
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Anniversaries and Thresholds

Anniversaries and Thresholds

  • The Rev. Katherine Bush
  • 03/02/2022
  • 10:52

We come to claim Ash Wednesday as the stand-in for the unknown anniversary of the day when the fires will go out and there are only ashes. We do this not out of a sense of gross morbid curiosity, not to wallow in dark fascinations, but as O’Donohue says “to gather ourselves / and decide carefully / how we now can live / the life we would love / to look back on…”