Welcome to Lent!!
The Gospel for Ash Wednesday neatly summarises the three pillars of Lent: fasting, prayer and almsgiving. When most people think of ‘giving things up for Lent’ they are thinking in terms of the disciplining of body and spirit, which comes under the broad category of ‘fasting’. So let’s leave fasting to one side and look at the other two: prayer and almsgiving.