Ashes blessed, forehead
with blessed ash dressed
marked for the day and
called to pray
to fast to give
in faith to live
and trust his plan
for woman, for man
so here we start
renewed soul, mind and heart
our foreheads declare
“I was there”
when he, when she
when you, when me
saw him crucified
and tried to hide
lest we be named
and with him shamed
and marked we bow
not then but now
to say crucifixion no more
but him adore
and ask his strength
to live this Lent
day by day
to fast, to pray
to give, to live
and we as one
journey begun
remember the loss
of the twenty-one of the cross
who in recent days
sought him to praise
as Calvary came
because they praised his name
On this blessed day
through ash and clay
we pray for PEACE
let senseless bloodshed cease.
“Turn away from sin …. be faithful to the Gospel”