The staff teams from the three churches meet to pray each week, joined by our friends from St Philip's, and we share in a number of special services together: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday at the Blue, the Easter Sunrise Service, and, today, Ash Wednesday, traditionally held at St Mary's.
Ash Wednesday, the begining of Lent, is the day we remember 'dust you are and to dust you return' and we receive the call to 'turn from your sins and turn to Christ.'
The sign of the cross on our foreheads is the sign of our mortality, and our dependence on the cross of Christ for our redemption.
One of today's hymns, seemed particularly appropriate to the Lenten theme:
Saviour, breathe forgiveness o'er us;
All our weakness Thou dost know,
Thou didst tread this earth before us,
Thou didst feel its keenest woe;
Tempted, taunted, yet undaunted,
Through the desert thou didst go
Finally, here is Bishop Christopher with a Lenten message in which he introduces this year's Lent Appeal
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