Lent Week I

 Driven Into the Desert

“lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil”

In the Gospel Reading for the First Sunday of Lent, we hear how the Spirit led Jesus out into the desert. Jesus is passionate about the Mission of God entrusted to Him. In the desert, He is tempted by the evil one to give up and abandon this mission.  There is desert dryness, hunger and thirst.  Jesus is called into a place of wilderness and danger; a place also of beauty, silence and peace.

We too are called by the same Spirit.  In our own deserts we recognize our thirst and hunger to know and love our God more deeply, more completely. It is in solitude and struggle that Jesus becomes for us ‘Living Water’ and the ‘Bread for’ life.

Action

Renew your Baptismal Commitment this week. 

Renewal of Baptismal Promises

Do you renounce sin, so as to live in the freedom of the children of God?

I do. 

Do you renounce the lure of evil, so that sin may have no mastery over you?

I do. 

Do you renounce Satan, the author and prince of sin?

I do. 

Do you believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth? 

I do. 

Do you believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was born of the Virgin Mary, suffered death and was buried, rose again from the dead and is seated at the right hand of the Father? 

I do. 

Do you believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting? 

I do. 

And may almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given us new birth by water and the Holy Spirit and bestowed on us forgiveness of our sins, keep us by his grace, in Christ Jesus our Lord, for eternal life. 

Amen. 

Sing and Pray with Bob Hurd

Out Into the Wilderness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkPl3Cee8DY