Isaiah 58

Tension and Grace, Ash Wednesday

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On Ash Wednesday we hear from Scripture about sinful fasting and repentance that isn’t really fasting and repentance because it is done for the publicity and show of it. And yet, we are fasting and repenting publicly ourselves. What do we do with this tension that we find before us in Scripture and ourselves? Father Jeremiah considers this in his Ash Wednesday sermon.

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