With Lent beginning on Valentine’s Day, this year’s season began from the point of view of love. We choose to acknowledge our sins on Ash Wednesday, not because it is a Holy Day of Obligation, but because somewhere within us all there is that desire to be better than we are and to start again.

The outward sign of the ashes reminds us that whilst flawed we are also loved as we come together to turn around and journey together into this special time.

Whatever you have given up or taken on for this Lenten Season, may it be a time of grace for you and those you love. May it draw you into an ever deeper relationship with God, Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier.

Holding all who keep this holy season in prayer and asking that God use our efforts to draw us ever closer to him.