“ You are witnesses of these things.” (Luke 24:48) If we look up at the sky on a clear night, what can we see? The moon, probably. Perhaps a bright star. Maybe patterns in stars, the constellations. Orion with his belt, three stars in a row. The Plough. The signs of the zodiac. If we have lived in the same place for a while, these patterns in the sky become familiar, changing with the seasons, but reassuringly there above us, a reminder of our safe place in the universe. So i

It does not seem 2 minutes since we were caught up in the celebrations for Christmas, and now this month we turn and face the great journey we are about to undertake towards the events of Holy Week, the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.   As Lent begins, the Lord is calling us together to examine our lives before him, to receive his forgiveness and grace and to go on our way renewed and not sinning again. Read the readings set for Ash Wednesday John 8: 1-11 “Le