By Mary Frances Schjonberg
[Episcopal News Service -- San José, Costa Rica] Reflecting on the message to "remember that you are dust and to dust you will return," Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said during an Ash Wednesday service here that "we are dust given life by the spirit of God."
Jefferts Schori presided and preached during an Ash Wednesday service February 25 at Hogar Escuela Episcopal, a day-care center in the Barrio Cuba section of San José, Costa Rica. During the service, the Presiding Bishop imposed ashes on some of the children who spend the day at the center, as well as school staff and participants in the Conference of the Anglican Churches in the Americas on Mutual Responsibility and Mission. The latter group visited the center at the beginning of a day-long tour of the city.
"We are dust hoping to be worthy of the image of God," the Presiding Bishop said during her sermon, adding that humans are "made of the same dust that comes ultimately from the stars."
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http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_105428_ENG_HTM.htm
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