Lectio Divina of the Gospels 2019-2020

February 26, 2020 Lectio Divina for Ash Wednesday

We begin our prayer: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Prompt our actions with your inspiration, we pray, O Lord, and by you be brought to completion. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Collect, Thursday after Ash Wednesday and further them with your constant help, that all we do may always begin from you

Reading ( Lectio ) Read the following Scripture two or three times. Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18

Jesus said to his disciples: “Take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them; otherwise, you will have no recompense from your heavenly Father. When you give alms, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets to win the praise of others. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give alms, do not let your left

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