St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Perth Amboy, brings Ash Wednesday to the Perth Amboy train station and the Raritan Bay YMCA in Perth Amboy 2/25/20

*Photos by Paul W. Wang

Press Release

PERTH AMBOY – On Ash Wednesday, February 26, 2020, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Perth Amboy, will once again be offering “Ashes to Go,” which brings a centuries-old Christian tradition outside the church walls at both the Perth Amboy train station (7:00 am to 8:30 am) and the Raritan Bay YMCA in Perth Amboy at 357 New Brunswick Ave in Perth Amboy (8 am to 10 am). “Ashes to Go” is an effort that has clergy and lay people visiting transit stops, street corners, coffee shops, and college campuses to mark the foreheads of interested passers-by with ashes. “Ashes to Go” is about bringing spirit, belief, and belonging out from behind church doors, and into the places where we go every day.  It’s a simple event with deep meaning, drawing on centuries of tradition and worship to provide a contemporary moment of grace.  The street corner, the coffee shop, or some other ordinary place is suddenly a place where God has come to meet you.  It’s Ash Wednesday, and you’re invited to wear your ashes, to claim repentance, grace and deep relationship with God for the challenges of your daily life.