What I Learnt During Lent

What I Learnt During Lent

Lent is a weird season of the liturgical calendar. It’s not exactly a happy season, mostly linked with having to give up things that we like and the idea of sacrifice. Yet it is also one of the seasons most recognised by people who don’t have anything to do with...
Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday

Today is one of the weird days of the liturgical calendar. Every other day is a celebration yet traditional services for Ash Wednesday end with the congregation having ash crosses drawn on our foreheads. A mark of mourning. Hardly celebratory. So why do we mark it?...