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    Lenten Grace: Daily Gospel Reflections
    Lenten Grace: Daily Gospel Reflections
    Lenten Grace: Daily Gospel Reflections
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    In this daily Lenten companion, members of the Daughters of St. Paul guide readers in lectio divina on the Scripture readings for the season. Includes the text of the Exultet with reflections for the Octave of Easter.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPauline Books and Media
    Release dateMar 25, 2019
    ISBN9780819845412
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      Lenten Grace - Daughters of

      Lenten Grace

      Daily Gospel Reflections

      By the Daughters of Saint Paul

      Boston

      www.pauline.org

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Lenten grace: daily Gospel reflections / by the Daughters of Saint Paul.

      p. cm.

      ISBN 0-8198-4525-6 (pbk.)

      1. Lent—Prayers and devotions. 2. Catholic Church—Prayers and devotions. 3. Bible N.T. Gospels—Meditations. I. Daughters of St. Paul.

      BX2170.L4L47 2008

      242’.34—dc22

      2008025737

      Scripture texts in this work are taken from the New American Bible with Revised New Testament and Revised Psalms © 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C., and are used by permission of the copyright owner. All rights reserved. No part of the New American Bible may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      The English translation of the Easter Proclamation (Exsultet) from Rite of Holy Week © 1972, International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Inc. All rights reserved.

      Cover design by Rosana Usselmann

      Cover photo: Mary Emmanuel Alves, FSP

      Interior photos: Armanda L. Santos, FSP, and Mary Emmanuel Alves, FSP, © Daughters of St. Paul

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the publisher.

      P and PAULINE are registered trademarks of the Daughters of St. Paul.

      Copyright © 2008, Daughters of St. Paul

      Published by Pauline Books & Media, 50 Saint Paul’s Avenue, Boston, MA 02130–3491

      Printed in the U.S.A.

      www.pauline.org

      Pauline Books & Media is the publishing house of the Daughters of St. Paul, an international congregation of women religious serving the Church with the communications media.

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      Contents

      How to Use this Book

      Liturgical Calendar

      Ash Wednesday

      Thursday after Ash Wednesday

      Friday after Ash Wednesday

      Saturday after Ash Wednesday

      First Week of Lent

      Sunday of the First Week of Lent — A

      Sunday of the First Week of Lent — B

      Sunday of the First Week of Lent — C

      Monday of the First Week of Lent

      Tuesday of the First Week of Lent

      Wednesday of the First Week of Lent

      Thursday of the First Week of Lent

      Friday of the First Week of Lent

      Saturday of the First Week of Lent

      Second Week of Lent

      Sunday of the Second Week of Lent — A

      Sunday of the Second Week of Lent — B

      Sunday of the Second Week of Lent — C

      Monday of the Second Week of Lent

      Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent

      Wednesday of the Second Week of Lent

      Thursday of the Second Week of Lent

      Friday of the Second Week of Lent

      Saturday of the Second Week of Lent

      Third Week of Lent

      Sunday of the Third Week of Lent — A

      Sunday of the Third Week of Lent — B

      Sunday of the Third Week of Lent — C

      Monday of the Third Week of Lent

      Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent

      Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent

      Thursday of the Third Week of Lent

      Friday of the Third Week of Lent

      Saturday of the Third Week of Lent

      Fourth Week of Lent

      Sunday of the Fourth Week of Lent — A

      Sunday of the Fourth Week of Lent — B

      Sunday of the Fourth Week of Lent — C

      Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent

      Tuesday of Fourth Week of Lent

      Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent

      Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent

      Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent

      Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent

      Fifth Week of Lent

      Sunday of the Fifth Week of Lent — A

      Sunday of the Fifth Week of Lent — B

      Sunday of the Fifth Week of Lent — C

      Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent

      Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent

      Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent

      Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent

      Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent

      Saturday of the Fifth Week of Lent

      Passion Sunday

      Passion Sunday — A

      Passion Sunday — B

      Passion Sunday — C

      Holy Week

      Monday of Holy Week

      Tuesday of Holy Week

      Wednesday of Holy Week

      Holy Thursday

      Good Friday

      Easter Vigil

      Easter Vigil — A

      Easter Vigil — B

      Easter Vigil — C

      Easter Sunday

      The Exsultet

      Octave of Easter

      Monday in the Octave of Easter

      Tuesday in the Octave of Easter

      Wednesday in the Octave of Easter

      Thursday in the Octave of Easter

      Friday in the Octave of Easter

      Saturday in the Octave of Easter

      List of Contributors

      How to Use This Book

      Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening (1 Sam 3:9).

      Lent is a favorable time (cf. Is 49:8), a time of abundant grace that draws us toward God and away from the darkness of sin.

      In these pages, various members of the Daughters of St. Paul share moments of joy and insight through prayer with Scripture. Our Founder, Blessed James Alberione, encouraged such prayer, saying, The person who nourishes himself or herself on the Word of the Bible … will be penetrated by the Holy Spirit. The Word of God presented to us in the liturgy during Lent is especially rich and favorable to deeper prayer and contemplation.

      Following the Gospel reading for each day of Lent, these reflections are based on Lectio Divina (holy reading), which is a way of praying with Scripture. Many methods of doing this have developed since the time of early monasticism. Here, the sisters use a simple framework that allows the Word of God to make room in our minds and hearts.

      The first step, Lectio (reading), is to read the day’s Gospel passage from a missal or Bible. Read it a few times slowly, perhaps especially noticing the phrase or verse that is listed under the Meditatio section.

      Next, the Meditatio (meditation) expands the meaning of this phrase and explores what it is saying to us today—what God is asking of us, or challenging us to, or offering to us. After reading the meditation, take as much time as you like to reflect on it.

      The Oratio (prayer) can help you talk to God about what has arisen in your heart, so that the time of prayer becomes a conversation, not just a time to think. God has spoken in the Scripture. We hear the invitation in our meditation, but now a response is called for. Our response is not just to say, Yes, I want to do as you are asking me, but also to say, Help me do it, Lord!

      The short line under Contemplatio (contemplation) is a way of extending this time of prayer into life. You can silently repeat it throughout the day to help deepen the intimacy with the Lord that you experienced in prayer.

      May your Lent be grace-filled and abundantly blessed!

      Liturgical Calendar

      Note to the reader: The weekday readings during Lent are the same from year to year, but the Sunday readings follow a three-year cycle (A, B, or C) as indicated in the following chart:

      Ash Wednesday

      Lectio

      Matthew 6:1–6, 16–18

      Meditatio

      … [Do not] perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them … your Father who sees in secret will repay you.

      What are you going to do for Lent? As children each year we had to answer this question. We gave up cookies, candy, TV, video games…; the list was made up of our most precious pleasures. We struggled through the forty days of Lent, flexing our spiritual muscles as we raced toward the Easter Day finish line. As adults we’ve settled into a more sophisticated Lenten spirituality, but often we end up giving up the same things we did as kids, perhaps hoping to lose a little weight or gain a little time.

      Today’s Gospel reading prods us to go deeper. It centers around theatrics. We all are mini-celebrities of our own lives, imagining a trail of adoring fans following us. We can even make Lent into a minor Hollywood production. We conceive the idea for our Lenten penance. We write the script. We are producer, director, actor, and audience all wrapped in one. And we end up at the Easter Day finish line as self-absorbed as we were on Ash Wednesday.

      Perhaps these words of Jesus spoken to us today are asking us to go backstage, take the last seat, sit down, and wait for God to reveal to us the script he has written for us this Lent. Perhaps as adults we should be asking at the beginning of Lent: What is God going to do for me in these next forty days? What is it that I desire God to do for me in this long Lenten retreat?

      Instead of theatrics, Jesus is inviting us to simple honesty. To smallness. To just being there and sensing his grace, quiet enough, still enough to feel the gentle tugs of the Spirit to newness, to giving up obstacles to the growth of a treasured relationship, to finding a few

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