Ashes to Go and traditional services for Ash Wednesday 2020

Ash Wednesday is February 26. It is the beginning of the liturgical season of Lent, a time of reflection and prayer lasting 40 days. It culminates in Holy Week and Easter, which this year is April 12. Episcopalians, Roman Catholics, Lutheran, Methodists, Presbyterians and some Baptists observe Ash Wednesday. Clergy make the sign of the cross in ashes on people’s foreheads as a visible symbol of human mortality. Watch a short video of how the ashes are made by burning the palms from the previous year’s Palm Sunday.

Ashes to Go began a decade ago with a few Episcopal Churches in the Mid-west taking the ritual outside the walls of their churches to meet people where they live and work and have their being. The imposition of ashes is offered in places as diverse as train stations, city plazas, coffee shop parking lots, downtown sidewalks, parks, and filling stations.

Several clergy of the diocese, including Bishop Scott Mayer, will be offering Ashes to Go in various locations.

All our congregations will be offering the traditional Ash Wednesday worship services with Imposition of Ashes. See schedules below.

Ashes to Go locations

Fort Worth

Sundance Square, downtown Fort Worth, 11:30 -1:30, Bishop Scott Mayer and other clergy

Starbuck’s at I-20 and Trail Lake Drive, 7:30-10 am., offered by St. Christopher Episcopal Church

Corner of Meadowbrook and Somerset in East Fort Worth, 7-8 am, offered by St. Luke’s in the Meadow Episcopal Church.

Church lawn of Trinity Episcopal Church, 3401 Bellaire Drive So., Ft. Worth, TX 76109, Phone: 817-926-4631. Commuter Service, 7 am with worship to follow in the Chapel for those who can stay.

Decatur

Parking lot of First United Methodist Church at the corner of Miller and Pecan streets. Ashes and Coffee to Go, 6:30 – 9:30 am, offered by the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection and First United Methodist Church of Decatur. This is the fourth consecutive year the two churches have joined in this ministry.

Granbury

Downtown Granbury at Red on the Square, 11:30-1 pm

Kroger, 377 and Acton Rd, Granbury, 3-4 pm

Both offered by the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 4530 Acton Highway, Granbury.

Keller

Parking lot of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church, 223 S. Pearson Lane, Keller, Texas, 76248 Phone: 817-431-2396. Drive-Thru Ashes in the parking lot 5:30-6:30 pm.

Ash Wednesday Services