Ash Wednesday Activity: Wash Away Your Sins

A Church article with View Comments posted 19 February 2010.
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Bowl of Water

I don’t know about you, but sometimes Martin Luther’s famous advice to “remember your baptism” rings awfully hollow for someone like me, who was baptized as an infant and, frankly doesn’t remember his baptism. Now I fully understand that he really means “remember that you are baptized.” And I fully support infant baptism: after all, in Holy Baptism, as in all of salvation, it is God doing the work, and it’s not up to my power or ability to choose. Especially this year, though, I have been looking for ways to claim baptism in a deep way.

For Ash Wednesday, the theme we had chosen was “confession,” and I was led to see an opportunity to connect Holy Baptism, confession, and absolution together in a powerful way. Here’s what we did:

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