Ash Wednesday Observances 2025

Along with our noon-day service in the Nave (so beautiful in purple), in the morning Rev. Jenn offered ashes-to go for the school, staff,

and parents.

Rev. Libby joined Fr. Charles of St. Mary's and went up to UH Mānoa to bring ashes-to-go for the staff & students on campus.

When the students gathered for pick-up at the end of the school day, ashes and instructions were passed out to any families interested.

Wishing you all a blessed Lent!

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This Sunday join Rev. Jenn after coffee hour

(10:45 in Monteiro Chapel) for Session One of

"Love God, Love God's World.”

Through this Lenten offering, we hope those who participate in the curriculum become:

• Comfortable speaking about their faith, care of creation, and climate change
• Personally transformed and invited into different levels of personal and collective engagement on creation care and eco-justice
• Confident about where to find creation care resources and information

To prepare for this week’s session, please:

1. Watch this sermon by former Presiding Bishop Michael Curry. The sermon starts at minute twenty-one (21) in the video (you don’t need to watch the whole celebration, you can just skip to minute 21 to watch). The sermon was delivered at a celebration for the 50th anniversary of the

Apollo 8 moon landing.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?455787-2/50th-anniversary-apollo-8

2. Read the following grounding scripture:

Scripture: 1 John 4:7-12 (NRSV)

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.



If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact Rev. Jenn at revjenn.hnc@gmail.com.

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Once again Holy Nativity will participate in the annual "Lent Madness" event. 



 It is a unique Lenten devotion created by two Episcopal priests from the mainland, the Rev. Tim Schenck and the Rev. Scott Gunn. It is a fun, engaging way to learn about saintly examples of people who followed Jesus in their own day.

We encourage you to join us in this online activity, not unlike a sports tournament, and follow its progress on our own giant bracket poster by the church bulletin board.

The event will begin right after Ash Wednesday when 32 saints are proposed to vie for the

Golden Halo. Through your email you will initially be provided with fascinating biographical information so you may vote every day during Lent. This process continues as you select one saint from a pair in single elimination brackets over five rounds.

To participate in Lent Madness 2025, you need to register at https://www.lentmadness.org

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REMINDERS

Breaking Bread (Pizza Church) is March 23rd

at 5pm

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