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This is an invitation. For some this may be a spring board for meditation, for others a source of insight and for others the beginning or renewal of a mystical relationship with our God. However the Spirit leads you, may you experience peace!
Sunday March 7th
Monday March 8th
Tuesday March 9th
Wednesday March 10th
Thursday March 11th
Friday March 12th
Saturday March 13th
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Third Sunday of Lent March 7th
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Exodus 3:1 – 8a, 13 – 15
1 Corinthians 10:1 – 6, 10 – 12
Luke 13:1 – 9
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“I have witnessed the affliction of my people in Egypt and have heard their cry of complaint against their slave drivers, so I know well what they are suffering.”
(Exodus 3)
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Help me, like God, to be aware of the suffering people in the world today.
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Monday March 8th
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2 Kings 5:1 – 15ab
Luke 4:24 – 30
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“Jesus said to the people in the synagogue at Nazareth, ‘Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place.’”
(Luke 4)
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Help me to feel how Jesus must have felt to have been driven out of his hometown for doing good.
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Tuesday March 9th
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Daniel 3:25, 34 – 43
Matthew 18:21 – 35
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“Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him?
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Help me to learn to forgive without limit .
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Wednesday March 10th
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Deuteronomy 4:1, 5 – 9
Matthew 5:17 – 10
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“Take care and be earnestly on your guard not to forget the things which your own eyes have seen….but to teach them to your children and your children’s children.”
(Deuteronomy 4))
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Help me to live and cherish the commandments and precepts and to be grateful for them.
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Thursday March 11th
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Jeremiah 7:23 – 28
Luke 11:14 – 23
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“I have sent you untiringly all my servants the prophets. Yet they have not obeyed me nor paid heed.”
(Jeremiah 7)
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Help me to see through my prejudices and free myself to listen to God’s Word.
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Friday March 12th
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Hosea 14:2 – 10
ark 12:28 – 34
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“Hear, O Israel! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, with all your strength. The second commandment is this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (Mark 12) |
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Help me to realize that love for my neighbor is a way of reflecting God’s love for me.
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Saturday March 13th
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Hosea 6:1 – 6
Luke 18:9 – 14
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“O God, be merciful to me, a sinner.”
(Luke 18)
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Help me to have a true understanding of humility as the tax collector did.
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