A Lenten Path
Scripture for the desert and the cross
lentLent is forty days of returning: less noise, less appetite, more room for God to speak.
This path follows the season itself — the call to return, the desert, the fast that feeds others, the mercy of the Father, and the cross where it all leads.
Readings
12 passages · Douay-Rheims
Joel 2:12-13
“Now therefore saith the Lord: Be converted to me with all your heart, in fasting, and in weeping, and in mourning. And rend your hearts, and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God:…”
Psalm 51:1-2
“Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy great mercy. And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my iniquity. Wash me yet more from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my si…”
Matthew 4:1-4
“Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry. And the tempter coming said to him…”
Matthew 26:41
“Watch ye, and pray that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh weak.”
Isaiah 58:6-7
“Is not this rather the fast that I have chosen? loose the bands of wickedness, undo the bundles that oppress, let them that are broken go free, and break asunder every burden. Deal thy bread…”
Isaiah 1:18
“And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow; and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.”
Luke 18:9-14 · The Pharisee and the Tax Collector
“And to some who trusted in themselves as just, and despised others, he spoke also this parable: Two men went up into the temple to pray: the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pha…”
Luke 15:11-32 · The Prodigal Son
“And he said: A certain man had two sons: And the younger of them said to his father: Father, give me the portion of substance that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his substance. And…”
2 Samuel 12:13
“And David said to Nathan: I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David: The Lord also hath taken away thy sin: thou shalt not die.”
Philippians 2:5-8
“For let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, bei…”
Luke 23:34
“And Jesus said: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. But they, dividing his garments, cast lots.”
Romans 5:8
“But God commendeth his charity towards us; because when as yet we were sinners, according to the time, Christ died for us.”