First Sunday: Lent Daybook 5

Take a few deep breaths, settle your body, mind, and heart into a quiet space, and let’s begin with prayer.

Opening prayer: Heavenly Father, make me more like Jesus and more like the true self you’ve created as I savor your loving presence today. Please guide my thoughts and impressions by your Holy Spirit. Amen.

Look: Christ in the Wildnerness, Ivan Kramskoy - Source

Listen: There Is a Solitude, Luke Howard, Voces8 - Spotify | YouTube

Read: Deuteronomy 26:5-11; Psalm 91:9-16; Romans 10:4-13; Luke 4:1-13

Pray: Collect for the First Sunday in Lent

Almighty God, whose blessed Son was led by the Spirit to be tempted by Satan: Come quickly to help us who are assaulted by many temptations, and, as you know the weaknesses of each of us, let each one find you mighty to save; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Do: On Sundays during Lent, we break our fast (at least partially). Enjoy something you've given up, giving thanks to Christ for the abundance we receive from his obedience and great love.

Read this week’s poem, an excerpt from “Ash Wednesday” by T.S. Eliot, and spend a few moments preparing for the first full week of Lent.

*Sunday Scripture readings are taken from Year C of the Book of Common Prayer 2019 (Anglican Church of North America). Daily Scripture readings are taken from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer and include both Morning and Evening Psalms (Year 2).