Lectio Divina: For Beginning of Lent- Cycle C

Please read slowly and reflectively.

Slowly count to five at the end of each line.

A READING FROM PSALM 51 (FIRST READER ONLY)

HAVE MERCY ON ME, O GRACIOUS ONE,/

ACCORDING TO YOUR STEADFAST LOVE;/

ACCORDING TO YOUR ABUNDANT KINDNESS/

FORGIVE ME/

WHERE MY THOUGHTS AND DEEDS HAVE HURT OTHERS./

LEAD ME IN THE PATHS OF JUSTICE,/

GUIDE MY STEPS ON PATHS OF PEACE!/

TEACH ME, THAT I MAY KNOW MY WEAKNESSES,/

THE SHORTCOMINGS THAT BIND ME./

YOU HAVE PLACED YOUR TRUTH IN THE INNER BEING;/

TEACH ME THE WISDOM OF THE HEART./

FORGIVE ALL THAT BINDS ME IN FEAR,/

THAT I MIGHT RADIATE LOVE./

CREATE IN ME A CLEAN HEART, O GRACIOUS ONE,/

AND PUT A NEW SPIRIT WITHIN ME./