You don’t have to speak the same language for an important sacred event to transpire.” They just come up and bow their heads, including those whose first language is not English.
Her reply: “’I think it means I want to get my act together, but I’m going to need some help.’ I said, “I think that’s what it means, too,’” Mote said.īut most who approach the cassock-clad Mote “don’t say anything at all. “What do you think it means?” Mote asked. Or an airport employee who told Mote she wanted ashes but had never had them before and wasn’t sure what it meant.
Like the young woman “last year who asked can you tell me how to explain Lent to people who don’t observe it,” Mote said. Mote says she takes the ashes into public spaces because reminders of mortality, humility and healing belong where the people are, and make for powerful connections even beyond the context of a formal liturgy. She has described some of her encounters on Facebook. If previous years are any indicator, she expects to impose ashes on hundreds of foreheads for people of a variety of faiths, nationalities and beliefs. “I’m out and about, which is my usual style,” said Mote, 51, who describes her parish as “4,700 acres, in a geographic sense,” through which pass an average of about 274,000 passengers on any given day.
Mote, Episcopal chaplain at the Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, says she will offer “Ashes on the Fly” to domestic and international travelers throughout the day on Ash Wednesday. Increasingly, there is “Ashes to Go,” ‘Smudge and Run,” “Drive-through Ashes,” “Ashes on the Fly,” and now, “Lent in a Bag,” as all sorts of churches - Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist - are moving the centuries-old Ash Wednesday observance beyond church walls. Mote, Episcopal chaplain at the Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, will offer “Ashes on the Fly” to domestic and international travelers throughout the day on Ash Wednesday.
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