This portion of the Ash Wednesday service begins with the penitential Rite of Ashes  where those expressing sorrow for sin kneel and have ashes imposed with the words from the Fall of Adam, "Remember, you are dust and to dust you shall return." The litany of repentance, readings from Joel and the Sermon on the Mount conclude this potion of the service. The hymn of mortality, "Who Knows when Death will Overtake Me?" is sung during the imposition of ashes with its refrain, "My God, for Jesus' sake I pray, Thy peace may bless my dying day!"