{"id":18836,"date":"2018-02-13T23:04:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T22:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=18836"},"modified":"2018-02-13T23:07:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T22:07:43","slug":"a-prayer-for-ash-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/a-prayer-for-ash-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for Ash Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/2018\/02\/13\/a-prayer-for-ash-wednesday\/6a017ee6931c0e970d01b7c8db1eca970b-800wi\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18838\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18838\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/files\/2018\/02\/6a017ee6931c0e970d01b7c8db1eca970b-800wi-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Joseph Nassal, CPPS<\/p>\n<p>Compassionate and Holy God,<br \/>\nstir the dust of our lives and help us remember who we are.<br \/>\nScatter this dust upon the field of our fear<br \/>\nand give us the courage to yield to redemption.<br \/>\nIgnite the ashes of our burned-out dreams and kindle life.<br \/>\nAs we carefully place these ashes in the urn of our heart,<br \/>\nwe yearn for sparks of new life.<\/p>\n<p>Loving God,<br \/>\nas we paint our faces with these ashes,<br \/>\nYou call us to turn away from sin but not from death.<br \/>\nYou tempt us to look the face of death in the eye<br \/>\nas we embrace and remember life.<\/p>\n<p>Merciful God,<br \/>\nas we carry the ash tattoo of the cross upon our foreheads,<br \/>\nkindle within us memories of your mercy.<br \/>\nGive us the courage to turn away from sin and return to You,<br \/>\nand so find our way to one another.<br \/>\nIt is in this turning that we find our truth.<\/p>\n<p>Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joseph Nassal, CPPS Compassionate and Holy God, stir the dust of our lives and help us remember who we are. Scatter this dust upon the field of our fear and give<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/a-prayer-for-ash-wednesday\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30868,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[454308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30868"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18839,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18836\/revisions\/18839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}