Bishop Banda’s Homily on Ash Wednesday – 2018.
Today, we begin our Lenten Season with a call to change, a change in our personal life, a change in our family life and a change in our societal life.
Today, we begin our Lenten Season with a call to change, a change in our personal life, a change in our family life and a change in our societal life.
Ash Wednesday, 14 February 2018 Ash Wednesday is one of the most popular and important holy days in the liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church. Ash Wednesday opens Lent, a season of fasting and prayer , in our preparation for Easter. God in his providence offers us each year the season of Lent as […]
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