On Thursday 2^nd November the church commemorates all the Faithful Departed.  Visits to the graves of loved ones and prayers for their happy repose at this time of the year, remind us that for our loved ones who have died, “life is changed, not ended.”Our prayer is that they are at peace and with God…

begins on Ash Wednesday this week.  Ash Wednesday is a day of penance in the Church and a day of abstinence and fasting.  Ashes, blessed and worn on this day are a sign of penance, traditionally a biblical one; they signify the human condition of the sinner, who seeks to express their guilt before the…