This coming Wednesday marks the beginning of the church season of Lent.
Some see this as a dour period of weeks to get through while abstaining from enjoyable things.
Others are happy to use it as a time for reflection and study.

On Wednesday evening at 7.30pm there will be a service of Eucharist with imposition of ashes.
The accompanying words ‘dust thou art, and to dust thou shalt return’ are not exactly conducive to lending a spring to the step of those departing the service…
Yet, there is a perhaps little realised connection between ‘spring’ and Lent…

There is a (in the opinion of this author) quite remarkable website, called A Clerk of Oxford.
Written during the period of Covid lockdown, a blog article treated of the meaning of Quarantine and how the concept can be linked to Lent.
It is respectfully linked to here to help us, through its profound and erudite insights, with our collective preparation for and understanding of the period we are about to enter.