Preparing
with Joy for the Paschal Feast
Part IV of XV
Sunday 14 February
2018
Ash Wednesday
The Conversion of
Nineveh
Jonah 3:1-10
The word of
the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying, “Get up, go to Nineveh, that
great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.” So
Jonah set out and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord.
Now Nineveh was an exceedingly large
city, a three days’ walk across. Jonah began to go into the
city, going a day’s walk. And he cried
out, “Forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” And
the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and everyone, great
and small, put on sackcloth. When the news reached the king
of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with
sackcloth, and sat in ashes. Then he had a proclamation made
in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: No human being or
animal, no herd or flock, shall taste anything. They shall not feed, nor shall they drink
water. Human beings and animals shall be covered with
sackcloth, and they shall cry mightily to God. All shall turn from their evil ways and from
the violence that is in their hands. Who knows? God may relent and change his mind; he may
turn from his fierce anger, so that we do not perish.” When
God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil ways, God changed his
mind about the calamity that he had said he would bring upon them; and he did
not do it.
The Rev’d Timothy
Alleman
Rector
The Church of the
Holy Cross
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