1st Sunday in Lent
Theme
Call to be Compassionate
Readings
- Old Testament
- Ruth 2: 4-20
- Psalm
- 145
- Epistle
- Eph. 4: 25-32
- Gospel
- Mark 1: 40-45
- Evening
- Deut. 4: 31-40 / 1 John 3: 15-24
Collect
Ever-loving Father and our God, who by your compassionate Spirit guides your people and who through your Son Jesus Christ has redeemed us from our great sins, grant that we, cleansed by your mercy and transformed by your grace, may reflect his compassion in our daily lives and in our relationships with others; help us to stretch out our hands and open our hearts with your healing love, that we, like Ruth in faithful service and like Jesus who touched the unclean and restored the broken, may be equipped to share your living Spirit with the world; through the mighty name of Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you, O Father, and with the powerfully sanctifying Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.