Start Lent the easy way with “coffee and ashes to go”

Friday, March 7th, 2014

A church in Tiverton, Rhode Island, made it easy to receive the Ashes this year.

The Holy Trinity Episcopal Church hosted Ashes to Go, a drive-by distribution of ashes for the faithful.

“We are trying to get our church outside the four walls of our church building,” said the Rev. John Higginbotham, priest-in-charge of Holy Trinity, 1956 Main Road. “We are really trying hard to get the church into the community.” continue reading

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