First Sunday in Lent - Year C
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Meditation – 1st Sunday in Lent Year C
Deuteronomy 26:1-11
Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16
Romans 10:8b-13
Luke 4:1-13
In the lectionary readings for today we have God’s promise that when we call upon him he will answer us.
This was impressed upon the Israelites after they left Egypt and were travelling towards their Promised Land. The Law commanded them to make sacrifices and offerings to God, and, as part of their harvest celebrations, they were to offer him the first fruits of their crops. Then, standing in God’s presence, they were to rehearse the story of their escape from slavery. “ ... Then we cried out to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice ... so the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm” (Deuteronomy 26:7-8). These words would be spoken year by year, so that their children and their children’s children would hear them and know of God’s great deliverance...
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