If staff, patients, or family members are unable to come to the chapel, please call the VUH Spiritual Care office to schedule a time for a chaplain to come to your unit with ashes, at (615) 343-3535. The word means loose soil, dust, or the residue that remains when something is burned. In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word for ashes ( e-pher) occurs just over 20 times. There will be a brief 20-minute service at noon in the chapel. We normally consider this to be at the age of reason, that is, 7 years of age. The word ash or ashes appears several times in Holy Scripture.

Ashes symbolized mourning, mortality and penance. We offer it because many of our members, who grew up in churches that used Imposition of Ashes, asked if we could use it too, since they found the practice a. Imposition of ashes will be available in the VUH Chapel (rear entrance in hallway by the ED side entrance, due to lobby renovation) during the following times: 6:30 to 7:30 a.m. The liturgical use of ashes originates in Old Testament times.

If a staff member, pediatric patient, or caregiver is unable to come to the chapel, please page the pediatric chaplain on-call at 835-1012 to have ashes brought to the floor or bedside. In place of a formal service this year, the Spiritual Care Department at the Monroe Carell, Jr Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt will observe Ash Wednesday through the imposition of ashes.Ī chaplain will be available in the hospital’s Chapel on the second floor at three different times, from 6:15 to 7:45 a.m., noon to 2 p.m., and 6:15 to 7:45 p.m. Monroe Carell, Jr Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt Ash Wednesday imposition of ashes information for VUMC main campus:

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