For some Easter is but a distant memory that has been and gone. However, as Christians we know that the season of Eastertide continues for 50 days and leads us all the way up to Pentecost.

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.