We begin the season of Lent with a reading from the Book of Joel the Prophet:
Reading - Joel 1-2, 12-17
2 Blow the trumpet in Zion;
sound the alarm on my holy hill.
Let all who live in the land tremble,
for the day of the Lord is coming.
It is close at hand—
2 a day of darkness and gloom,
a day of clouds and blackness.
Like dawn spreading across …