Ash Wednesday
5 March 2014
For Ash Wednesday, Wednesday 5 March, we shall be holding a service of Holy Communion with the Imposition of Ashes in Hertford College Chapel. The music will be Vaughan Williams Mass in G minor and the wonderful Allegri Miserere.
Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, the Christian season of fasting before Easter. It is a time for examining the conscience at the beginning of the fast, and is marked by the (optional) reception of a cross of ash on one’s forehead.