Holy God, Your Son Jesus rode with pilgrims into Jerusalem, and excited crowds threw branches in His path. These palms have been to us a reminder of His reign all year. Now as we prepare for Lent, and recall, through the work of Your Holy Spirit within us, that we have fallen short of Your will for us, we burn these palms to make ashes that will mark us with the sign of mortality and repentance; and we remember that though “sorrow may spend the night, Joy comes in the morning”, and out of death comes resurrection, through our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.
(prayer by the Rev. Jennifer Phillips)
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