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Lent - Week One 2010
By Pat Lee | February 25, 2010
Thursday: February 25, 2010
Readings: Leviticus 19: 1-2, 11-18; Matthew 25:31-46
Scripture Verse: You shall love your neighbour as yourself (Lev. 19:18)
Reflection: When I worked in the Parish of Combermere in the early 1990’s, the church was left unlocked. Often I would go into the church and find a couple of people in there praying. One elderly lady, in particular, would be there almost every day. She was not a member of the church but over the years we began to chat occasionally. One day she told me that she really appreciated the church being unlocked because it allowed her the time and peace to pray for the people she knew in the village. As everyone knew everyone in Combermere, she had a lengthy list of people. To have someone who will pray for you in a sacred space is truly a gift.
Today’s readings give us a vision of how we are to come before God in the sacred space we call a church. Both suggest that we are to come before God having treated other people with kindness and love. A good Lenten practice is to pick someone in your life whom you will pray for each day. Place an image of that person in your mind and surround him or her with prayers of kindness and love.
We pray with the psalmist “Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart find favour before you” Psalm 19:15
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