Marist Association Daily Prayer

Let us always remember that

we are in the holy presence of God

May God continue to live in our hearts

In the name of the Father,

Son and Holy Spirit

Amen

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  • Intention of the Day
  • Today's Gospel
  • Breaking Open the Word
  • Marist Source
  • Reflection
  • Meditation
  • Call to Action
  • Closing Prayer

Intention of the Day

For our sick and suffering family
Marists at Holy Family Parish School, Parkes, NSW

For our sick and suffering family
Marists at Holy Family Parish School, Parkes, NSW

Today's Gospel

Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert and was tempted.

Luke 4:1-13
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Luke 4:1-13

Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus returned from the Jordan
and was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty
days, to be tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during
those days, and when they were over he was hungry. The
devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this
stone to become bread.” Jesus answered him, “It is written,
One does not live on bread alone.” Then he took him up and
showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a single instant.
The devil said to him, “I shall give to you all this
power and glory; for it has been handed over to me, and I
may give it to whomever I wish. All this will be yours, if you
worship me.” Jesus said to him in reply, “It is written: / You
shall worship the Lord, your God, / and him alone shall you
serve.” / Then he led him to Jerusalem, / made him stand
on the parapet of the temple, and said to him, “If you are
the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, for it is
written: / He will command his angels concerning you, to
guard you, / and: / With their hands they will support you,
/ lest you dash your foot against a stone.” / Jesus said to him
in reply, “It also says, You shall not put the Lord, your God,
to the test.” When the devil had finished every temptation,
he departed from him for a time.

The Gospel of the Lord.

Breaking Open The Word

The Spirit’s Murmuring

Taken from: Give Us This Day
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Taken from: Give Us This Day

With ashes smudged on our foreheads, we began Lent on
Wednesday with a flourish. Now, on Lent’s first Sunday, we
remember how Jesus, “full of the Holy Spirit,” as Luke’s Gospel
reminds us today, or “led up by the Spirit,” as in Matthew’s
account, went into the wilderness. Mark’s passage is in active
voice, “the Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness,”
and then sums it all up: “He was in the wilderness forty
days, tempted by Satan, and he was with the wild beasts, and
the angels waited on him.”
After publicly submitting to John’s baptism and experiencing
the Spirit’s descent, Jesus went off to pray, to reflect on
what was unfolding in his life, and to say “no” to the temptations
holding him back.
If we focus too quickly on the drama of Satan’s three temptations
of Jesus, we may miss the Spirit’s murmuring to us to take
time out during Lent to pray and to be silent in the presence of
God. Quieting our minds in the wilderness of everyday life, our
own wild beasts will fill the emptiness—our troubles, regrets,
fears, cravings, and oversized hopes. What are our temptations:
food, sex, the best of this or that, power, wealth, prestige, or
even to exude confidently that we have God figured out?
Is this why we should take time out to pray during Lent?
Deuteronomy reminds us today to be grateful to God always.
St. Paul urges us to bring our faith into our hearts. Lent’s forty
days allow God’s Spirit to help us to do this and to confront
our afflictions, to accept them as our thoughts, and (we pray)
to watch them go away.

John Borelli

John Borelli, a historian of religions and a theologian, serves as
special assistant for Catholic identity and dialogue to the president
of Georgetown University.

For our sick and suffering family
Marists at Holy Family Parish School, Parkes, NSW

Marist Source

It is remarkable how the various characters in the parable change,
once confronted by the painful sight of the poor man on the roadside. The
distinctions between Judean and Samaritan, priest and merchant, fade into
insignificance. Now there are only two kinds of people: those who care for
someone who is hurting and those who pass by.

Pope Francis in “Fratelli Tutti”, No. 70

For our sick and suffering family
Marists at Holy Family Parish School, Parkes, NSW

To Ponder

What are the 'temptations' in your life at this moment? Ask for God's guidance.

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Closing Prayer

All Loving God

Cultivate in us a spirituality that flows out of Marian simplicity, humility and modesty.

Release in us wellsprings of refreshment, inspiration and excitement for your work in which we share.

Help us set our gaze on those people and places most in need of Christlife,

Impel us to respond together,

And lead us to be in communion with one another, and with you.

Like Mary, we listen for your invitation,

Like Mary, we set out joyfully and in haste to the hill country of the lives of young people,

Like Mary, we build communities in ways that are Christ-centred.

All Loving God, come and live in our hearts.

 

 Amen