18.02.2024
Reflection for the First Sunday of Lent by Archbishop Michael Jackson
Archbishop Michael Jackson will share a reflection for each Sunday in Lent in connection with our Shine a Light appeal for Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, run by our partners in the Diocese of Jerusalem. Each short reflection takes the Gospel of the Sunday and links it to a range of international humanitarian needs, most especially in the context of the sufferings in Gaza and Israel and in the wider region encompassed by the Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem.
The First Sunday in Lent February 18
St Mark 1.12: At once the Spirit drove Jesus out into the wilderness …
The wilderness of war is a place of torment of humanity, destruction of nature, stench of putrefaction. What weapons fail to achieve, the absence of sanitation eventually will.
God’s purpose for the world is that the weapons of war perish.
The Gospel for The First Sunday in Lent tells us that the Spirit drove Jesus out into the wilderness; therefore the wilderness retains something of God at all times.
Let us pray for those in the wildernesses of war today.
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