Ash Wednesday Transmission, Feb 6, 7-9pm
February 4, 2008
This week we’ll be having Ash Wednesday at Paul’s – email if you want to come and need directions. Come ready celebrate your own mortality and kick off lent with style! We’ll also be discussing the possibility of collaborating on a
Purim/Maundy Thurday service with Storahtelling (yes, the two really are on the same day this year) and a Good Friday service with our friends at Sanctuary.
And, just for fun, have a copy of my favorite Lenten song, sung to the
tune of “my favorite things”…
Sackcloth and ashes,
and days without eating,
Mortification and wailing and weeping,
A hair shirt that scratches,
a nettle that stings,
These are a few of my favorite things.
Penitence, flagellants, memento mori,
Spending nights sleeping on rocks in a quarry,
The sound of a cloak’d solemn cantor who sings,
These are still more of my favorite things.
Tossing and turning and yearning I’m spurning,
Passions aflame like an ember day burning,
Corpus and carnis and wild drunken flings,
Forsaken are they for my favorite things!
When it’s Christmas,
When the tree’s lit,
When the cards are sent,
I simply remember my favorite things,
And then I can’t wa-a-a-a-it till Lent.