Archbishop Thabo Makgoba - Ash Wednesday, St George’s Cathedral
17 February 2010
May I speak in the name of God the Father, who reconciles us to himself through the Son, and renews his right Spirit within us. Amen.
Lent may be summed up in the words with which we receive the ash on our foreheads ‘Turn away from sin, and believe the good news.’
Sin, we know – and God knows too – is part of the human condition, and at times is all too evident.
Our newspapers overflow with the sexual indiscretions of our country’s leaders – to say nothing of assertions of corruption and abuse of power.
