As is becoming my custom,
I began Ash Wednesday and Lent by going upstairs into my small private chapel
and lying prostrate in penitence for a time.
I will not say my
thoughts did not stray. Ah, that
much more about which to be penitent.
Although prostration
during Ash Wednesday is not now a common practice to my knowledge (Learned readers,
feel free to educate me.), it does have a history, including in the Sarum Rite
as I wrote two years ago.
Whatever your posture,
may you have a blessed and edifying Lent.
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