This year the Bishop of Southwark's Lent Call is focussed on organisations tackling food poverty, both within the diocese and in our link dioceses in other parts of the world. You can read about the projects we are urged to support with our prayers & donations. #Lent#FoodPoverty Lent Call Week 1: St Matthew, Redhill - ‘Nothing had prepared me to hear the stories of food banks in our local areas’ Link here :https://bit.ly/lentcallblog

There’s always a certain irony in proclaiming a Gospel reading that teaches us to hide our fast and not display it on our faces, and then, a few moments later, marking the cross on the congregations’ foreheads as a sign of their penance. It stirs the debate as to whether we should keep the cross in place as we go out into the street or whether we ought to remove it before we leave church. This year, of course, it’s a moot point. You are not able to be with me in church to rec