Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent, falls on 1 March. Pancakes will have been digested and various achievable and fanciful promises of abstinence will have been made.
For this year's Lenten audio series, we've teamed up with Apostleship of the Sea, the bishops' agency that looks after the practical and pastoral care of seafarers to bring you insightful weekly reflections from port chaplain Father Colum Kelly. Father Colum's based out of Immingham - a port on the south west bank of the Humber Estuary near Grimsby.
As you might expect there's a maritime theme and we're pulling anchor and heading out to sea for a Lenten voyage.
Week One
The first week invites us into the wilderness. We read in the Gospel of the anguish of Jesus in the wilderness and all the uncertainties and trials that came his way in that bleak place.
