"I invite you, therefore, in the
name of the Church to the
observance of a holy Lent."

St. Columba's Episcopal Church

Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper
Tuesday, March 4
6:30 - 8:00 pm

Join us Tuesday evening for the traditional Pancake Supper!  Our EYC and their advisors will be preparing pancakes, sausage, bacon,  and fruit for our Shrove Tuesday celebration.  Bring your palms from last year's Palm Sunday.  We'll burn them to make ashes for Ash Wednesday. 

Games + fellowship + pancakes ... what more could you ask for?

Ash Wednesday
Wednesday, March 5
7:00 am     +     12:00 noon     +     7:00 pm

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of our 40-day season of Lent.  Ashes will be imposed at a brief liturgy at 7:00 am.  Low Mass and Imposition of Ashes will be offered at 12:00 noon.  Choral Mass and Imposition of Ashes will be offered at 7:00 pm.

The first Christians observed with great devotion the days of our Lord's passion and resurrection, and it became the custom of the Church to prepare for them by a  season of penitence and fasting. This season of Lent provided  a time in which converts to the faith were prepared for Holy Baptism. It was also a time when those who, because of notorious sins, had been separated from the body of the faithful were reconciled by penitence and forgiveness, and restored to the fellowship of the Church. Thereby, the whole congregation was put in mind of the message of pardon and absolution set forth in the Gospel of our Savior, and of the need which all Christians continually have to renew their repentance and faith. I invite you, therefore, in the name of the Church, to the observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting, and self-denial; and by reading and meditating on God's holy Word.