The First Sunday in Lent
by CCW | 18 February 2018 01:00
The collect for today, the First Sunday in Lent, from The Book of Common Prayer[1] (Canadian, 1962):
O LORD, who for our sake didst fast forty days and forty nights: Give us grace to use such abstinence, that, our flesh being subdued to the Spirit, we may ever obey thy godly motions in righteousness and true holiness, to thy honour and glory; who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.
The Epistle: 2 Corinthians 6:1-10[2]
The Gospel: St Matthew 4:1-11[3]
Artwork: Fra Angelico, The Temptation of Christ, 1436-45. Fresco, Museo Nazionale di San Marco[4], Florence. (The fresco depicts only two of Christ’s three temptations because it was cut away when the cell was partially demolished in order to open a window over the Cloister.)
- The Book of Common Prayer: http://prayerbook.ca/resources/bcponline/propers/#lent1
- 2 Corinthians 6:1-10: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Cor%206:1-10;&version=ESVUK;
- St Matthew 4:1-11: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%204:1-11;&version=ESVUK;
- Museo Nazionale di San Marco: http://www.polomusealetoscana.beniculturali.it/index.php?it/190/museo-di-san-marco-firenze
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