Responsive Prayer of Confession and Forgiveness for Lent.

Pastor’s lines are marked "V" (verse)

Congregation’s lines are marked "R" [response]

V: Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. There is the smell of death in the air.

R: It is death we smell. Jesus, our Lord, is walking toward his death.

V: It is a slow walk, a heavy walk that our Lord steps off toward Jerusalem.

R: A bitter walk, a lonely walk, a painful walk, a passionate walk.

V: To die. To die a cruel death, an agonizing death, an unjust death.

R: But a compassionate death, a necessary death.

ALL: Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. O, Lord, on your way to death, have mercy on us.

V: It’s our fault he has to die.

R: It’s Adam’s fault. It’s Moses’ fault. It’s Peter’s fault.

V: It’s your fault. It’s my fault.

R: It’s our fault.

V: Our blindness, our prejudice…