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It hardly seems like Christmas is over, yet tomorrow (yes, tomorrow!) sees the start of Lent with Ash Wednesday . There will be Mass and distribution of ashes at 8am, 10am and 7.30pm. By the way, ever wondered what the ash is made from? After all, something has to have been burned to make the ashes. Well, now you know what happened to last year's palm leaves that were waved in re-enactment of Christ's entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday . That's the Church in a nutshell: everything is connected, great and small.

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Some parishioners have apparently received the impression that families with children must attend the 11.15am Mass. This is not true. Families and children are welcome at all Masses.

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The minutes of the Parish Council meeting on 19 November 2007 are now up on the website.

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For all you Countdown addicts and anagram anoraks out there, here's the ultimate timewaster .

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John Allen , possibly the most respected religion reporter today, has posted a fascinating article analysing Pope Benedict's aims. Here's a sample:

To put the story in a sound-bite, I would call it the emergence of “Affirmative Orthodoxy” as an interpretive key to Benedict’s papacy.

By “affirmative orthodoxy,” I mean a tenacious defense of the core elements of classic Catholic doctrine, but presented in a relentlessly positive key. Benedict appears convinced that the gap between the faith and contemporary secular culture, which Paul VI called “the drama of our time,” has its roots in Europe dating from the Reformation, the Wars of Religion, and the Enlightenment, with a resulting tendency to see Christianity as a largely negative system of prohibitions and controls. In effect, Benedict's project is to reintroduce Christianity from the ground up, in terms of what it’s for rather than what it’s against.

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