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Week 2 Lenten Reflection L E N T E N M I S S I O N We invite you to take an image of Christ and add it to your sacred space at home. During this coming week, set aside some time each day to light your candle and gaze into the eyes of Jesus. Talk to him from your heart. Unburden yourself. See no anger or reprimand, just compassion and tender loving mercy as Jesus listens to you. See Him look at you with great love. Psalm 51 describes King David’s heartfelt sorrow for having sinned against God. Choose one line from this psalm that speaks most to you and prayerfully speak those words to God in a way that applies to your life right now. Psalm 51 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your merciful love; according to your great compassion, blot out my transgressions. Wash me completely from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. Walking with Jesus My transgressions, truly I know them; my sin is always before me. Against you, you alone, have I sinned; along the Via Dolorosa what is evil in your sight I have done. L E N T E N R E F L E C T I O N S W E E K 2 So you are just in your sentence, without reproach in your judgment. J e s u s ’ l o o k o f i n f i n i t e m e r c y d r e w t e a r s o f Create a pure heart for me, O God; r e p e n t a n c e f r o m P e t e r a n d , a f t e r t h e L o r d ’ s renew a steadfast spirit within me. R e s u r r e c t i o n , a t h r e e f o l d a f f i r m a t i o n o f l o v e f o r h i m . T h e s e c o n d c o n v e r s i o n a l s o h a s a Do not cast me away from your presence; c o m m u n i t a r i a n d i m e n s i o n , a s i s c l e a r i n t h e L o r d ’ s take not your holy spirit from me. c a l l t o a w h o l e C h u r c h : ‘ R e p e n t ! ’ S t A m b r o s e s a y s o f t h e t w o c o n v e r s i o n s t h a t , CCC Catechism of the Catholic Church Saint Peter, After El Greco, The National Gallery. i n t h e C h u r c h ‘ t h e r e a r e w a t e r a n d t e a r s : t h e w a t e r Used with permission under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Gospel Passage from The Jerusalem Bible © 1966 by Darton Longman & Todd Ltd and Doubleday and Company o f B a p t i s m a n d t h e t e a r s o f r e p e n t a n c e . ’ Ltd. C C C 1 4 2 9 Psalm 51 from The Psalms: A New Translation © 1963 The Grail (England) published by HarperCollins Jesus' arrest and trial before the Sanhedrin and the denial of Peter. In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen Lord Jesus, as we continue to journey with you on your way to the Cross, we ask that you strengthen our faith in you. You experienced rejection, denial, and abandonment even from your closest friends. There are times in our lives when we too can face these things. Let us remember the promise that you made to us – that you will be with us always. We ask that you keep our hearts and minds open to your will so that even in our most challenging moments we remember that you are by our side. We know that through your love and grace we can rise above the most trying moments by uniting ourselves to you. During your trial before the Sanhedrin, when you faced mockery, rejection, and violence, you continued to be at one with your Father in heaven. Help us to be an example to others of what it is to live out our faith with hope and joy, even during times of struggle. We ask this through Christ, Our Lord. Amen Gospel Reading Matthew 26:67-75 Then they spat in his face and hit him with their fists; others said as they struck him, 'Prophecy to us, Christ! Who hit you then?' Meanwhile, Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and a servant- girl came up to him saying, 'You, too, were with Jesus the Galilean.' But he denied it in front of them all. 'I do not know what you are talking This picture of St Peter in the National Gallery has the format of a portrait, showing only head and shoulders against a dark background, about,' he said. When he went out to the gateway another servant-girl but the intense and almost agonised expression suggests that it is more than a portrait. Straining upwards, looking at something beyond the saw him and said to the people there, 'This man was with Jesus the picture; his eyes glisten with tears. Nazarene.' And again, with an oath, he denied it, 'I do not know the The focus is on Saint Peter’s grief for having denied knowing Christ in man.' A little later the bystanders came up and said to Peter, 'You are order to protect himself after the latter’s arrest. After his third denial ‘the Lord turned and looked upon Peter’, who ‘went out and wept certainly one of them too! Why, your accent gives you away. 'Then he bitterly’ (Luke 22: 61–62). started cursing and swearing, 'I do not know the man.' And at once the The scene emphasises the saint’s humanity through his sin and cock crowed, and Peter remembered what Jesus had said, 'Before the remorse, the message for us is that with repentance comes forgiveness. cock crows you will have disowned me three times.' And he went outside and wept bitterly..
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