Saturday, February 16, 2008

Lent 2008 - 2nd Saturday


"Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall declare your praise."

The Saturdays of Lent have a grateful and uplifting tone to them.

Our lesson today reminds us of the covenant God made long ago:
you be my people

and I will be your God.

In the new covenant, without condition,
God is faithful to us, even if we are not.

Jesus calls us to a new way of being -
loving others as we have been loved -
which includes loving those who do not love us.

We are to be as pure in our love,
as God is pure in loving us.

God loved the world so much, he gave us his only Son, that all who believe in him might have eternal life.
John 3:16

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