But it is not an empty confession that we partake in. The confession is meant to call us to repentance - or to turning from our sin in acknowledgment. There is time for introspection and quiet devotion as we pray and meditate on God’s Word. On Ash Wednesday, however, we have a bit of a prolonged time of confession. And, we are reminded how much we need to go to the cross ourselves - go to the cross in faith, turning from self and sin, and to the Savior who redeems us by His shed blood.Īs our journey with Jesus begins, we come together to have a time of confession we do this every Sunday, and, if you follow the Daily Office, we confess twice a day. While we are not ourselves headed to an actual cross, we are reminded each Sunday of Jesus’s journey to the cross. What I mean by calling our season of Lent “a journey” with the cross as our destination is that the Gospel readings on Sunday morning follow the journey that Jesus takes toward Jerusalem just before His passion. On Ash Wednesday we begin our journey to the cross.
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