Daily Devotion - First Sunday in Lent (Feb 22-28)

 

Invocation and sign of the cross ╬

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Scripture readings  (Link for today's texts)

Sunday: Gen 4:1-26; Mark 2:18-28

Monday: Gen 6:1-7:5; Mark 3:1-19

Tuesday: Gen 7:11-8:12; Mark 3:20-35

Wednesday: Gen 8:13-9:17; Mark 4:1-20

Thursday: Gen 11:27-12:20; Mark 4:21-41

Friday: Gen 13:1-18; Mark 5:1-20

Saturday: Gen 15:1-21; Mark 5:21-43

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Apostles’ Creed

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Learn by Heart

Romans 6:3-5 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?  Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.  For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection.

 

The Seventh Petition

But deliver us from evil.

 

What does this mean?

We pray in this petition, in summary, that our Father in heaven would rescue us from every evil of body and soul, possessions and reputation, and finally, when our last hour comes, give us a blessed end, and graciously take us from this valley of sorrow to Himself in heaven.

 

The Conclusion

For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever.*  Amen.

 

What does this mean?

This means that I should be certain that these petitions are pleasing to our Father in heaven, and are heard by Him; for He Himself has commanded us to pray in this way and has promised to hear us.  Amen, amen means “yes, yes, it shall be so.”

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Lord’s Prayer

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Prayers for family, friends, Church, nation