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Reconciliation
Taken from At Your Word Lord Season lV - Reconciliation
Psalm 50:1
Have mercy on me, O God,
According to your steadfast love;
According to your abundant mercy'
blot out my transgressions.
Matthew 4:1
Jesus was led by the Spirit out into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil
Contemplate:
Bad habits can sneak into our life, almost unnoticed.
The enormous temptations rarely occur, and few temptations really offer to change our lives.
For the most part, temptations start in subtle ways with the small things in life, the
apparently unimportant. A little bit of unkindness here, to a little bit of dishonesty there,
the bad ways begin to take root and as time goes on it becomes just a little easier to take
the wrong road and make bigger mistakes. Before we know it, we have become used to false
standards and even accept our bad behaviour as normal. This Gospel invites us to go with Jesus
into the wilderness and to reflect on our lives and recognise where we are tempted and where
we fail. We have a chance to put things right.
A Prayer:
Lord God, open my eyes afresh, to see where I take short cuts and allow
temptation to influence my life, and when I give in and compromise what I know to be right.
The Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturdays 11am -12 noon
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