FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT
LAUDS AT 9:30 AM HOLY EUCHARIST AT10:00 AM This First Sunday in Lent our Liturgy begins with the Great Litany in procession. The Rev. Andre Trevathan will be our homilist with Dean Lloyd Casson presiding.
The First Sunday of Lent the Great Litany in procession opens our Liturgy as we experience the mystery of Our Lord’s forty-day fast in the wilderness. Click here to view this Sunday’s service leaflet.
JOIN WITH US AS WE BEGIN OUR LENTEN JOURNEY.
INTRODUCTION TO THE SCRIPTURE First Sunday of Lent – February 21, 2010
DEUTERONOMY 26:1-11. The offering of the first fruits of the harvest was one of the great festivals in Israel’s temple ritual. Though the story and the liturgy probably developed much later, in this passage Moses is said to have initiated the ritual as a commandment from God. The story lifts up the fundamental concept of stewardship: offering to God the first returns of our labour as an act of worship and thanksgiving, and as a symbol of the dedication of ourselves and all our possessions to God.
ROMANS 10:8b-13. Paul struggles to explain how both Jews and Gentiles can have a right relationship with God. For Jews it was by keeping of the commandments of God given through Moses. But that can only be done by faith in the lordship of Jesus Christ, Paul says to the Romans. Nothing else will suffice for either Jews or Gentiles.
LUKE 4:1-13. Immediately after his baptism, the Spirit led him into the wilderness for a time of prayer and fasting. The so-called temptations came to Jesus as inner reflections about how to do what he now perceived his divine mission to be. He could have chosen any of the three tempting ways: to satisfy his own needs by feeding himself and the crowds immediately; to gain supreme power by subjecting himself to evil; or to draw attention to himself by some spectacular performance. He rejected all three. His struggles with temptation had not ended. More were yet to come as he chose the way that led to the cross.
18 Feb, 2010 — Daniel Tomko
