Dear Parishioners, this coming week we begin the Season of Lent. There will be Mass at 9.30am on Ash Wednesday and at 7.00pm Deacon Sean will lead a liturgy with the distribution of ashes. On Thursdays we will have Mass at 7am followed by breakfast. On Friday evenings there will be Stations of the Cross at 7pm. The Walk with Me prayer books are available. Often much is made in Lent of what we will give up, but I often think that it is just as important to think about the extra things we can do. We are called in Lent to think about our spiritual lives and to try and deepen them through prayer, fasting and almsgiving. We may think that Lent is something to be endured, but maybe this year we can see it as something to be enjoyed by drawing closer to Christ through our Lenten disciplines. God bless, Fr Andrew.