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​WEDNESDAY 
APRIL 2, 2025

QUESTIONARY
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MEDITATION
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​READINGS FOR LENT 2025

Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, “This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.”
   And he spake this parable unto them, saying, What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance (luke 15.1-7).

The purpose of Lent is to prepare the believer for Easter and the new and improved life that Jesus’ resurrection foreshadows. This preparation consists of increased prayer, doing penance, mortifying the flesh, repenting of sins, almsgiving, and simple living and self-denial. It is hoped that our daily readings assist in those preparations.

​READING FROM THE PSALMS

I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live:
   I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
My meditation of him shall be sweet:
   I will be glad in the LORD (104.33-34).

In his most trying hour, Jesus turned to the Psalms to express himself in prayer: “My God, my God! Why hast thou forsaken me?” (ps. 22.1). If it was good enough for him, it is good enough for us. Generations of Jews and Christians alike have found power in praying the Psalms as Jesus did on the cross. Here, we provide a daily psalm with the suggestion that you consider incorporating it into your daily prayers.

​​READING FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT GOSPELS

Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father (john 10.17-18).

It is impossible to overestimate the power and importance of the N.T. Gospels. Everywhere else when God's thoughts, words, and actions are discussed, it is in the third person: "he thinks," "he says," "he does." But in the N.T. Gospels, all of God's thoughts, words, and actions are in the first person: "I think," "I say," "I do." No where is the revelation of God and His character more accurate and intimate.

​​​READINGS ON THE JUST SOCIETY

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and [thus] to keep himself unspotted from the world (james 1.27).