The next day the crowds who had come up for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to JERUSALEM. In the Biblical imagination Jerusalem holds a place that no other city can. As salvation history unfolds God’s people hold fast to the promise that they are chosen and that God will be with …
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Lent Alphabet (I)
IF IF you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I enjoin on you today, if you love the Lord your God and follow his ways,if you keep his commandments, his laws, his customs, you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you are …
Lent Alphabet (H)
HOLY The Lord spoke to Moses; he said: Speak to the whole community of the sons of Israel and say to them: ‘Be HOLY, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.’ If you set yourself the task of reading the Bible from cover to cover, you could be forgiven for losing enthusiasm when you …
Lent Alphabet (G)
GIVE GIVE us today, our daily bread. The Liturgy of the Word in Lent takes us through some of the major themes of our salvation history. Many of the readings can be heard as an invitation to conversion of heart. The Our Father can be read as a guide to this conversion. It’s familiar petitions …
Lent Alphabet (F)
FASTING The people of Nineveh believed in God: they proclaimed a FAST and put on sack cloth, from the greatest to the least. So many thoughts surface for me when I come to explore the concept of food and fasting. I am conscious of friends who have struggled with eating disorders, I am troubled by …
Lent Alphabet (E)
EMPTIED Make your own the mind of Christ Jesus:Who, being in the form of God,did not count equality with God something to be grasped.But he EMPTIED himself, taking the form of a slave,becoming as human beings are;and being in every way like a human being,he was humbler yet,even to accepting death, death on a cross. …
Lent Alphabet (D)
DESERT The Lord will always guide you, giving you relief in DESERT places. He will give strength to your bones and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water whose waters never run dry. Lent invites us into the desert and the Exodus experience of the Israelites. I hear in Isaiah’s …
First Sunday in Lent (A)
Genesis 2:7-9, 3:-17Matthew 4:1-11 For the first hearers of Matthew’s Gospel the scene of Jesus in the desert would have struck a familiar chord. In the preceding chapters they heard of the miraculous birth of Jesus, an attempt to kill him, the need to flee to Egypt and his passing through the waters of the …
Lent Alphabet (C)
COMPASSION Now, now- it is the Lord who speaks- come back to me with all your heart, fasting, weeping, mourning. Let your hearts be broken, not your garments torn, turn to the Lord your God again for he is all tenderness and COMPASSION, slow to anger, rich in graciousness and ready to relent. Each of …
Lent Alphabet (B)
BELOVEDAnd from the cloud there came a voice which said:‘This is my Son, the Beloved; he enjoys my favour. Listen to him.’ The Lent Lectionary pairs Matthew’s account of the Transfiguration with the story of Abraham being promised God’s blessing. When Abraham is asked to look at the night sky and to try and count …