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The collect for today, the First Sunday in Lent, from the 1662 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 true holiness, to thy honour and glory, who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.
The Epistle: 2 Corinthians 6:1-10
The Gospel: St Matthew 4:1-11
Artwork: Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy, Christ in the Wilderness, 1873, Oil on canvas, Tretjakov Gallery, Moscow.
What a painting, one can almost ‘taste’ the emotion. Would that we could last one day in our wilderness
I’ll say this, the man looks really hungry.