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SUMMARY:Skema
DESCRIPTION:Biblical Readings for Office and Mass\n1st Week of Lent\n\n\nMass Readings: Sunday (A)\, Weekdays (II)\nFebruary 22 – 28\, 2026\n\n\n\nSun\n22\nMon\n23\nTue\n24\nWed\n25\nThu\n26\nFri\n27\nSat\n28\n\n\nOffice\n1st Sunday of Lent\nLenten Weekday\nLenten Weekday\nLenten Weekday\nLenten Weekday\nLenten Weekday\nLenten Weekday\n\n\nVigils\nExod 4:1-17\nExod 4:18-31\nExod 5:1-6:1\nExod 6:2-13\, 28-7:7\nExod 7:8-24\nExod 7:25-8:15\nExod 8:16-28\n\n\nLauds\nDeut 4:25-31\nDeut 4:32-40\nDeut 5:1-10\nDeut 5:11-15\nDeut 5:16-22\nDeut 5:32-6:3\nDeut 6:4-9\n\n\nMass\n22\n224\n225\n226\n227\n228\n229\n\n\n1st\nGen 2:7-9; 3:1-7\nLev 19:1-2\, 11-18\nIsa 55:10-11\nJonah 3:1-10\nEsth C:12\, 14-16\, 23-25\nEzek 18:21-28\nDeut 26:16-19\n\n\n2nd\nRom 5:12-19\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGospel\nMatt 4:1-11\nMatt 25:31-46\nMatt 6:7-15\nLuke 11:29-32\nMatt 7:7-12\nMatt 5:20-26\nMatt 5:43-48\n\n\nVespers\nHeb 2:10-18\nHeb 3:1-6\nHeb 3:7-13\nHeb 3:14-19\nHeb 4:1-11\nHeb 4:12-16\nHeb 5:1-10
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - 1st Sunday of Lent
DESCRIPTION:THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT \nFrom a commentary by St Gregory Nazianzen \n◊◊◊ \nWe must not expect baptism to free us from the temptations of our \npersecutor. The body that concealed him made even the Word of God a target \nfor the enemy; his assumption of a visible form made even the invisible light an \nobject of attack. Nevertheless\, since we have at hand the means of overcoming \nour enemy\, we must have no fear of the struggle. Flaunt in his face the water and \nthe Spirit. In them will be extinguished all the flaming darts of the evil one. \nSuppose the tempter makes us feel the pinch of poverty\, as he did even to \nChrist\, and taking advantage of our hunger\, talks of turning stones into bread: \nwe must not be taken in by him\, but let him learn what he has still not grasped. \nRefute him with the word of life\, with the word which is the bread sent down \nfrom heaven and that gives life to the world. \nHe may try to ensnare us through our vanity\, as he tried to ensnare Christ \nwhen he set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said: “Prove your divinity: \nthrow yourself down.” Let us beware of succumbing to pride\, for the tempter \nwill by no means stop at one success. He is never satisfied and is always \npursuing us. Often he beguiles us with something good and useful\, but its end is \nalways evil. That is simply his method of waging war. \nWe also know how well-versed the devil is in Scripture. When Christ \nanswered the temptation to turn stones into bread with a rebuke from Scripture \nbeginning: It is written\, the devil countered with the same words\, tempting \nChrist to throw himself down from the pinnacle of the temple. For it is written \nhe quoted\, he will give his angels charge of you\, and on their hands they will \nbear you up. O past master of all evil\, why suppress the verse that follows? You \ndid not finish the quotation\, but I know full well what it means: that we shall \ntread on you as on an adder or a cobra; protected by the Trinity\, we shall trample \non you as on serpents or scorpions. \nIf the tempter tried to overthrow us through our greed\, showing us at one \nglance all the kingdoms of the world – as if they belonged to him – and \ndemanding that we fall down and worship him\, we should despise him\, for we \nknow him to be a penniless impostor. Strong in our baptism\, each of us can say: \n“I too am made in the image of God\, but unlike you\, I have not yet become an \noutcast from heaven through my pride. I have put on Christ; by my baptism I \nhave become one with him. It is you that should fall down before me.” At these \nwords he can only surrender and retire in shame; as he retreated before Christ\, \nthe light of the world\, so he will depart from those illumined by that light. Such \nare the gifts conferred by baptism on those who understand its power; such the \nrich banquet it lays before those who hunger for the things of the Spirit.
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