For the first time in Estevan local clergy offered the community Ashes to Go on Ash Wednesday.
Clergy from Trinity Lutheran Church, St. Paul’s United Church, Faith Lutheran Church and St. Giles Anglican Church were putting ashes on people’s foreheads as a reminder that people are mortal.
They also were praying for people.
From the Middle Ages it became the custom to begin Lent by being marked in ash with the sign of the cross.
Ashes to Go is becoming quite popular in big cities, and several people in the Estevan community, who couldn’t take the time to come for a service, traditionally provided in churches, stopped in front of the Estevan Court House to receive their ashes to go and to pray to begin the season of Lent.
