Lenten Meditations: First Sunday of Lent
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Deut. 26:4-10 | Romans 10:8-13 | Luke 4:1-13 |
First Sunday of Lent
LITURGICAL THEME FOR THE DAY: The readings during the five Sundays of Lent provide a short course in the meaning of baptism, with each reading referring directly to part of the baptismal rite found in the Western Liturgical Tradition On this first Sunday in Lent, the readings focus on resisting the things of this world that may lead us to evil. Instead we are asked to consider making choices that lead to a renewal of our lives given the choices we are often faced with each day in this world
MEDITATION OF THE DAY: When we consider the desert which is where Jesus finds himself on today’s Gospel account, those of us unaccustomed to such places may consider the desolate dryness in the desert. While it may well be that could it be more than that? Could it be a time when Jesus entered into a places set apart for silence and simplicity so he could connect with His Father and the Spirit. Even Jesus needed to take that type of time which then as now is one of our most precious commodities in life.
Jesus makes his way to the desert at a time in his life that he needs that clear connection to God. He desires to make room for God to reveal Godself to him and to us. Our lives are so full of busy-ness and noise that we don’t have time to be with God. We can’t hear God calling. This lesson reminds us that all of us need the silence of the desert, the silence of retreat to hear God’s call to us and to prepare us for the noise of our lives and resist to temptations that will come.
PRAYER OF THE DAY: Lord God, you who breathed the spirit of life within me.
Draw out of me the light and life you created. Help me to find my way back to you.
Help me to use my life to reflect your glory and to serve others as your son Jesus did. Amen
Lenten Discipline – Take a small retreat based on the Hymn O the Love of My Lord/aka Gentle as Silence. Listen to the recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X-9S2LUdJ4 and review the words at http://stps.50webs.com/hymns/29.htm After spending time and listening carefully write a reflection on how the movements of this song are occurring or need to occur in your life this Lent.
ANCIENT WISDOM/PRESENT GRACE: “If we strive to be happy by filling all the silences of life with sound, productive by turning all life’s leisure into work, and real by turning all our being into doing, we will only succeed in producing a hell on earth. – Thomas Merton, No Man Is An Island
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