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Rend Your Heart, Not Your Garments

Photo of snail and balloon flower with text overlay of the poem, "Rend Your Hearts, Not Your Garments."
“Rend Your Heart, Not Your Garments”
A reflection on Joel 2:12-18 and Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18
Ash Wednesday
©️2026 Gloria M. Chang

Rend your heart, not your garments: discover the hidden treasures of Lent in secret prayer, fasting, and mercy.

First Reading

Joel 2:12-18

Even now, says the LORD,
return to me with your whole heart,
with fasting, and weeping, and mourning;
Rend your hearts, not your garments,
and return to the LORD, your God.… Read the rest

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Lent, Day 1

“Lent, Day 1”
Ash Wednesday
©️2021 Gloria M. Chang

Seeking the Face of God

Ash Wednesday begins with the sober remembrance of our expulsion from the Garden of Eden. “For you are dust, and to dust you shall return,” the Lord God pronounced after Adam’s transgression (Genesis 3:19).… Read the rest

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Locust Cavalries

“Locust Cavalries”
A reflection on Joel 1-2:18
Ash Wednesday
©️2023 Gloria M. Chang

Even now, says the LORD,
return to me with your whole heart,
with fasting, and weeping, and mourning;
Rend your hearts, not your garments,
and return to the LORD, your God.

… Read the rest