In Lent, we imitate Jesus when He fasted for forty days in the desert (Mt 4:2). In Lent, we also imitate Jesus when He overcame the evil one by using the Scriptures (Mt 4:4, 7, 10). To use the Scriptures to fight against temptations, we must know and live the Scriptures. Thus, Lent is the time of making sure that our lives are founded on obeying the Lord's scriptural revelations (see Mt 7:24) and that the Scriptures are fully integrated into our lives.
Answer the following questions:
This Lent, turn to the Lord and make sure that you are living in His Word. Read the Bible with the heart of the Church.
| PRAYER: | Father, may I take the Scriptures "not as the word of men, but as it truly is," Your word at work within us who believe (1 Thes 2:13). |
| PROMISE: | "Give us today our daily bread, and forgive us the wrong we have done as we forgive those who wrong us." –Mt 6:11-12 |
| PRAISE: | Carl purchases multiple Bibles each year. He gives them as gifts to those people the Holy Spirit brings to his mind. |
Reprinted with permission from Presentation Ministries, a lay association of the Catholic Church that focuses on evangelization and discipleship through Bible teaching, daily Mass, the charisms of the Holy Spirit, and Small Christian Community. Their ministries include:
· One Bread, One Body
· Daily Bread Radio Program
· Annual Bible Institute
· Discipleship Retreats
· Guadalupe Bible College