First Sunday in Lent | March 9

Mar 9, 2025 • Pastor Jess Felici, Pastor Jason Felici

Welcome Trinity Family and Friends!

These forty days called Lent are like no other. It is our opportune time to return to the God who rescues, to receive the gifts of God’s grace, to believe with the heart and confess with the mouth the wonder of God’s love in Jesus, and to resist temptation at every turn. This is no small pilgrimage on which we have just embarked. It is a struggle Jesus knew. It is a struggle Jesus shares. The nearness of the Lord, in bread and wine, water and word, will uphold and sustain us.

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Hymns:

Gathering Hymn: “The Glory of These Forty Days” ELW #320

Text: Latin hymn, 11th cent.; tr. Maurice F. Bell, 1862-1947, alt. Outside USA: Text from The English Hymnal

Hymn of the Day: “As the Sun with Longer Journey” ELW #329

Offertory: “On My Heart Imprint Your Image” ELW #811

Text: Thomas H. Kingo, 1634-1703; tr. Peer O. Strömme, 1856-1921, alt.

Communion Anthem: “Our Hope Is in Jesus” McDonald Choir

Sending Hymn: “Bless Now, O God, the Journey” ELW #326

Text: Sylvia G. Dunstan, 1955-1993

Readings:

First Reading: Deuteronomy 26:1-11

One of the concerns of Deuteronomy is the continued faithfulness of Israel once it entered the Promised Land. While, in other places, it urges Israel not to despair of God’s promises in hard times; here it focuses on the dangers of forgetting God in good times. As Jesus asserts in today’s Gospel, all good gifts come from God.

Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16

This psalm, quoted by the tempter in the Gospel reading, affirms God’s care, but also encourages us to trust only in God.

Second Reading: Romans 10:8b-13 This reading echoes the faithfulness of Jesus in today’s Gospel. Further, like Hebrew poetry, it delights in saying the same thing twice in different ways. “Believing with the heart” and “confessing with the mouth” are the same, as are being “justified” and being “saved.”

Gospel: Luke 4:1-13

Each year on the First Sunday of Lent we hear the temptation of Christ in the wilderness from that year’s Gospel. Matthew’s and Luke’s telling of this story are remarkably similar, although in Luke power is the second temptation and miraculous preservation is the third (Matthew reverses these).

Liturgy reprinted from “Evangelical Lutheran Worship”, copyright 2006 Augsburg Fortress, used by permission of license #SBT004670 and One License A-709549; Prayers are from “Sundays & Seasons”, copyright 2024 Augsburg Fortress. Introductions to the readings are written by The Rev. Mark Oldenburg, Ph.D., Steck-Miller Professor Emeritus of the Art of Worship, United Lutheran Seminary.

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