Friday, March 15, 2019
Ash Wednesday - Matthew's Lord's Prayer
Whe does the Ash Wednesday Gospel reading skip the Lord's Prayer?
If Lent is in part about the discipline of prayer, then we ought to be learning how to pray from Jesus himself. This one is a flat out miss by the RCL team. In fact, Matthew's Lord's Prayer appears no where in the lectionary, and Luke's version gets hidden in the middle of summer. Surely we ought to hear the Scripture that gives us the prayer that we pray each time the Church gathers.
And why don't we get many ash readings on Ash Wednesday?
Here are some that ought to make the cut: Jonah 3, Job 2 and 42, and Esther 4.
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