At 6:30pm on February 22 we will gather for Ash Wednesday, a day when we remember that the wages of sin is death. Because of our sin we have all merited death, and so as from dust we came so also to dust shall we return. In penitence we receive the ashes, marked on our foreheads in the sign of the cross, to remember our sin and to remember the Lord who suffered death to give us life everlasting.