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Archive for March 1st, 2009

The Rev David Curry: Sermon for the First Sunday in Lent

March 1st, 2009 | 2 Comments

The Rev David Curry, Rector of Christ Church, Windsor, preached this sermon for the First Sunday in Lent. Unusually for Fr Curry, it was not based on either of this morning’s Scripture readings but on Hebrews 5:8, “Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered”. This is nonetheless a most fitting [...]

Lenten Hymn: “Forty days and forty nights”

March 1st, 2009 | Comments Off

“Jesus … was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being forty days tempted of the devil” — St Luke 4:1,2 This morning’s processional hymn on The First Sunday in Lent at Christ Church, Windsor. Hymn #105 in The Book of Common Praise (1938), official hymn book for the whole of The Church of England [...]

The First Sunday in Lent

March 1st, 2009 | 1 Comment

The collect for today, the First Sunday in Lent, from the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer: O Lord, who for our sake didst fast forty days and forty nights; Give us grace to use such abstinence, that, our flesh being subdued to the Spirit, we may ever obey thy godly motions in righteousness and [...]