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​THURSDAY 
APRIL 3, 2025

QUESTIONARY
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MEDITATION
​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​psalm 51.7-12, 16-17 questionary #30 for lent find it here

​READINGS FOR LENT 2025

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean:
  wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Make me to hear joy and gladness;
  that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
Hide thy face from my sins,
  and blot out all mine iniquities.
Create in me a clean heart, O God;
  and renew a right spirit within me.
Cast me not away from thy presence;
  and take not thy holy spirit from me.
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;
  and uphold me with thy free spirit.
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For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it:
  thou delightest not in burnt offering.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit:
  a broken and a contrite heart,
    O God, thou wilt not despise (psalm 51.7-12, 16-17

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

Give us help from trouble:
for vain is the help of man.
Through God we shall do valiantly…  (60.11-12).

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

Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them (matthew 18.19-20).

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

Now the cause of this iniquity of the people was this—a Satan had great power, unto the stirring up of the people to do all manner of iniquity, and to the puffing them up with pride, tempting them to seek for power, and authority, and riches, and the vain things of the world. And thus Satan did lead away the hearts of the people to do all manner of iniquity… (3 nephi 6.15-16).