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THE HERALD Clergy comment Sackcloth and Ashes By Richard Anglican Minister or St Church Williams and St Pauls Church Nerval Today Ash Wednesday is the beginning of Lent Though the season Is as well known as Christmas and Easter It has not grabbed the popular Imagination as much as Christianitys great festivals We prefer happy celebrat ions to quiet reflections and sackcloth and ashes are not popular attire for modem people The penitential flavour of the season dates back to the iixth century when the Lombards were invading Italy The church thought that if people showed enough remorse God would deliver them Pasting and diligence in prayer and the sackcloth and ashes were Ihcsigns of that remorse and they became entrenched In Lenten observances We still try to win Gods sympathy when a great fire destroyed part of the city of Montreal in 1832 the civic fathers declared a fast Another was declared Just a few years ago in Italy after a erupted If limes are tough people thought il must be because weve been bad and God is punishing us SOME WAYS There arc some ways that we are indeed responsible for the ills that beset us Modern man has made greed legitimate to listen to lottery ads you would think greed patriotic duty Our personal and national grasping fori things we cannot afford has thrown individuals into bankruptcy and countries into inflation We demand the best municipal services and improvements hen complain when taxes rise We havent learned to live within our means we havent teamed the point of the tenth commandment not to covet the things that look so hey have to bo paid tor But more than that we havent learned to accept responsibility for our altitudes to admit the consequences of our That irresponsibility is typical of human beings It dates right back to the Garden of Eden with Adam blaming Eve for his disobedience Eve trying to shift the blame to the serpent We enjoy the credit for good things we are involved with but when hard luck besets us we dont like to acknowledge that It may partly be our fault Ash Wednesday is the time for our spirit to put on sackcloth and ashes for us to own up to our failures and shortcomings We shy away from harsh words like sin but in moments of honesty we stop deceiving ourselves The Greek word for sin means literally missing the mark and we miss the mark of being all that God intends us to be If Lent is a time for repentance it is also a time for forgiveness We dont repent in order to put ourselves down but in order to back on right path return to our pilgrimage If you have an upset with a friend and you feel uncomfortable in one anothers prcscnceso that you cannot work together or enjoy life together the first thing to say is Im sorry Thats hard to do but when youve said that it clears the air so you can start afresh In Lent we say were sorry In Gods presence so we can hear his forgiveness and set our anew in his company and his strength Constant world crisis desensitizes us to war writer urges vigilance From a psycnoiogical point of view you can only live under Crisis conditions for so long before you become ac customed or lu Ihe crisis As people we speak of war in a disassociated manner war in the middle east war in Viet Nam war In Cambodia ihB far away remote When we watch the evening news the war that is brought into our livlngrooms takes on a John Wayne movie image not quite real to us after all the good guys will win in the end Unfortunately In reality the good guys dont always win Might dollars power dollars force dollars these the in v EAGLE Guest speaker Ulrica and his Odin enthralled men and boys at the banquet for the Georgetown Cubs and Scouts Tuesday evening as he talked about eagle and other birds of prey and how he them to keep the runways of Toronto International Airport free of birds which could damage the planes Last year he took a contract to perform the same service for air force base at North Bay Obituary Actons Lena Mann CHORISTERS GRANT The approval of a grant to the Oakvllle Senior Choristers was announced Monday by the federal govern ment This grant which falls under the New Horiions Program with the National Health and Welfare Department will enable Ihe senior citizens to continue to entertain at senior residences and clubs in the surrounding area There are four groups in the Oakville Seniors Residence on Road that will make use of equipment and facilities the singalong on Wednesday evening the Music Listeners on Friday evening the Sunday Evening Hymn Sing and the Impromptu Slngalonga There are approxi mately participants in this project Well known Acton resident Edith Helena Lena Mann died at her home Feb The former Lena Buck was born at Gore Bay Manitoulln Island and came to Acton as a young girl She worked in Wiles confectionary store and Hassards Drug store before her marriage In later years she operated the Cameo Shop on Main Street and opened the first claims office in Acton for Unemployment Insurance Commission In the early 1970s Mrs Mann was deeply In volved with Knox Presbyter- Ian Church and sang in the church choir until the time of her death fane also taught Sunday School and served as treasurer of the Sunday School for a number of years She organ lied churchs junior choir more than years ago and conducted It for a number of years She was a life member of the Alert Evening Auxiliary and still active In the Ladles Aid She was treasurer and pianist or Actons Golden and also belonged to Ihe Sunshine Club of She was an avid gardner and loved to quilt and cook Mrs Mann leaves son Ken neth of and daughter Linda Mrs Bob Paul of Acton as well as seven grand children Also surviving Mrs Mann arc her sister Pearl Mrs Marvin Graham of and brothers Albert of Hanover Martin of Van couver Herbert of Owen Sound George of Midland and William of She was predeceased by her husband Alex in January 1B77 and brothers Richard Kenneth and Dr Austin Buck Funeral services for Mrs Mann will be conducted from the Shoemaker Funeral Home this afternoon Feb at 11 a m by Rev Chas Beaton Interment will follow at Fair- view Cemetery The United Nations has defined a refugee as anyone who owing to a well founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race religion nationality membership of a particular social group or political opinion is unable to return his homeland PEOPLE The plight of the boat people those thousands upon thousands of Viet namese refugees packed tighter than sardines into rickety boats touched the hearts of the Canadian people In recent years refugees from Hungary Chile and now Vict Nam risked Iheir lives to escape their homelands for a chance at freedom John Cur ran said after the Independence or America the price of liberty is eternal vigilance We who watch wars rage In other lands have changed war is abhorrent to us and even more so to our children Vet while we spout platitudes of peace to our youth other nations teach the doctrines of war leach who the enemy Is teach how to destroy the enemy Rather ironic isnt if Each lime the big VIEWPOINT powers issue strongly worded statements our false sense of security is shaken and loy I say toy because our youth have for more than two generations been free ram war It is not a reality to them in Canada today there are many refugees who know what war is in a way Canadians con not War is the greatest perverter of men All men No nation leaves the battlefield clean or conscience As a nation of people we have not been prepared for war We rely on our credit cords the fact that the supermarket will always be stocked with goodies HOLOCAUST How many of us have con nuclear holocaust in rela tion to our individual We are psychologically unprepared o defend freedom in the Jungles of a remote to us nation We have pampered ourselves far beyond what we deserve since In the post few years our has be come it cant happen again and even if it does it wont be here there arc too many safeguards We have become smug in our secure free world Perhaps we are too smug We must remember the words of John spoken over years ago the price of liberty Is eternal vigdeneo We accept detente today as a nation walking on eggs not wanting to moke waves trying to be In and out a door at the same lime We thunder our indignation at the Invasion of the Veil Nam with the likeness we wonder if anyone takes us seriously So much is traded off in todays world that the free world loses sight of who the enemy is the enemy is any threat to freedom wherever and who ever the threat comes GENERAL INFORMATION DUMP HOURS Monday to Friday 900 AM to 500 PM Saturday 900 AM to 300 PM Located on Armstrong Avenue Georgetown For information PHONE 8771420 8770173 REALTY LTD Finn Poulstrup Manager Susan Carrier REALTOR Michael Adams Trudy Simmons EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AQAINI me show you charm of this beautiful solid brick formal cat in kitchen and New plumbing wiring pine cupboards original woodwork Give your antiques i home Call Trudy Simmons bungalow situated features include 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