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  • Photo courtesy JIm Vaiknoras/CNHI The Rev. Susan Esco Chandler at St James Church in Amesbury. Mass. On Ash Wednesday, Chandler will be having Ashes on the go where she'll be outside the church next to a sandwich board offering ashes to people who want them.

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February 21, 2012

‘Ashes to go’

Mass. church shares holiday ritual for those on the run

From CNHI News Service CNHI

AMESBURY, Mass. —

It is called “ashes to go” and the unusual Ash Wednesday service is spreading among Episcopal churches across the country.

Started five years ago in St. Louis, Mo., by Rev. Teresa K. M. Danieley at a roadway intersection, Episcopalian clergy smudge the sign of the cross on the forehead of anyone who stops and cares to receive the customary religious symbol for the start of Lent.

“It started sort of half-jokingly, but it became something pretty profound,” Danieley told Religious News Service. “It's fulfilling a spiritual need but also a pragmatic need. It's showing flexibility in an institution often seen as very inflexible.”

Rev. Susan Esco Chandler, rector of St. James Episcopal Church in Amesbury, Mass., said it is a way to engage people in Ash Wednesday even if they can't attend the traditional church service.

So she will stand outside her church on Ash Wednesday for the first time and dispense ashes to people on the go.

“I have members that can't make it to service in the evening or during the day because of either work or family obligations,” said Rev. Chandler. “I wanted to do something in the morning where they could drop by on their way to work.”

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Details for this story were provided by the Newburyport, Mass., Daily News, a sister publication of the Daily Sun. Want to “Soundoff” on this story? Email: soundoff@corsicanadailysun.com

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