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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=0 width="99%" style='width:99.0%'><tr><td width="89%" style='width:89.0%;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>The Lessons Appointed for Use on the<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td width="11%" rowspan=3 style='width:11.0%;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><img width=109 height=137 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.gif@01D28E76.0100CB00" alt="http://www.lectionarypage.net/Art/Newshield.gif"></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>First Sunday in Lent<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Year A<br>RCL<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></table><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><a href="http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearA_RCL/Lent/ALent1_RCL.html#ot1"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'>Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><a href="http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearA_RCL/Lent/ALent1_RCL.html#nt1"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'>Romans 5:12-19</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><a href="http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearA_RCL/Lent/ALent1_RCL.html#gsp1"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'>Matthew 4:1-11</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><a href="http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearA_RCL/Lent/ALent1_RCL.html#ps1"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'>Psalm 32</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Download this page as a <a href="http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearA_RCL/Lent/ALent1_RCL.docx"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'>Word Document</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><a href="http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearA_RCL/Lent/ALent1_RCL.html">http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearA_RCL/Lent/ALent1_RCL.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:15.0pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>The Collect<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:11.25pt;margin-right:24.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>A</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>lmighty God, whose blessed Son was led by the Spirit to be tempted by Satan: Come quickly to help us who are assaulted by many temptations; and, as you know the weaknesses of each of us, let each one find you mighty to save; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. <i>Amen.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:15.0pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Old Testament<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.4pt;mso-line-height-alt:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:2.25pt;margin-right:24.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>T</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>he <span style='font-variant:small-caps'>Lord</span> God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. And the <span style='font-variant:small-caps'>Lord</span> God commanded the man, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:2.25pt;margin-right:24.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that the <span style='font-variant:small-caps'>Lord</span> God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God say, ‘You shall not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, nor shall you touch it, or you shall die.’“ But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not die; for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:15.0pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>The Response<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.4pt;mso-line-height-alt:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Psalm 32<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:3.75pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Beati quorum<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.75pt;margin-right:24.0pt;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-24.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>1 </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>H</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>appy are they whose transgressions are forgiven, *<br>and whose sin is put away!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.75pt;margin-right:24.0pt;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-24.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>2 Happy are they to whom the <span style='font-variant:small-caps'>Lord</span> imputes no guilt, *<br>and in whose spirit there is no guile!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.75pt;margin-right:24.0pt;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-24.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>3 While I held my tongue, my bones withered away, *<br>because of my groaning all day long.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.75pt;margin-right:24.0pt;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-24.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>4 For your hand was heavy upon me day and night; *<br>my moisture was dried up as in the heat of summer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.75pt;margin-right:24.0pt;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-24.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>5 Then I acknowledged my sin to you, *<br>and did not conceal my guilt.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.75pt;margin-right:24.0pt;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-24.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>6 I said," I will confess my transgressions to the <span style='font-variant:small-caps'>Lord</span>." *<br>Then you forgave me the guilt of my sin.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.75pt;margin-right:24.0pt;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-24.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>7 Therefore all the faithful will make their prayers to you in time of trouble; *<br>when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.75pt;margin-right:24.0pt;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-24.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>8 You are my hiding-place;<br>you preserve me from trouble; *<br>you surround me with shouts of deliverance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.75pt;margin-right:24.0pt;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-24.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>9 "I will instruct you and teach you in the way that you should go; *<br>I will guide you with my eye.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.75pt;margin-right:24.0pt;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-24.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>10 Do not be like horse or mule, which have no understanding; *<br>who must be fitted with bit and bridle,<br>or else they will not stay near you."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.75pt;margin-right:24.0pt;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-24.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>11 Great are the tribulations of the wicked; *<br>but mercy embraces those who trust in the <span style='font-variant:small-caps'>Lord</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.75pt;margin-right:24.0pt;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-24.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>12 Be glad, you righteous, and rejoice in the <span style='font-variant:small-caps'>Lord</span>; *<br>shout for joy, all who are true of heart.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:15.0pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>The Epistle<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.4pt;mso-line-height-alt:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Romans 5:12-19<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:2.25pt;margin-right:24.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>A</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>s sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned-- sin was indeed in the world before the law, but sin is not reckoned when there is no law. Yet death exercised dominion from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sins were not like the transgression of Adam, who is a type of the one who was to come.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:2.25pt;margin-right:24.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died through the one man's trespass, much more surely have the grace of God and the free gift in the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded for the many. And the free gift is not like the effect of the one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brings justification. If, because of the one man's trespass, death exercised dominion through that one, much more surely will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness exercise dominion in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:2.25pt;margin-right:24.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Therefore just as one man's trespass led to condemnation for all, so one man's act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all. For just as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:15.0pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>The Gospel<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:8.4pt;mso-line-height-alt:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Matthew 4:1-11<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:2.25pt;margin-right:24.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>J</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>esus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished. The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.75pt;margin-right:24.0pt;margin-bottom:1.5pt;margin-left:60.0pt;text-indent:-24.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>‘One does not live by bread alone,<br>but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:2.25pt;margin-right:24.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Then the devil took him to the holy city and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, saying to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.75pt;margin-right:24.0pt;margin-bottom:1.5pt;margin-left:60.0pt;text-indent:-24.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ <br>and ‘On their hands they will bear you up,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.75pt;margin-right:24.0pt;margin-bottom:1.5pt;margin-left:60.0pt;text-indent:-24.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.’”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:2.25pt;margin-right:24.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:2.25pt;margin-right:24.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor; and he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.” Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! for it is written,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:.75pt;margin-right:24.0pt;margin-bottom:1.5pt;margin-left:60.0pt;text-indent:-24.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>‘Worship the Lord your God, <br>and serve only him.’”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:2.25pt;margin-right:24.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Then the devil left him, and suddenly angels came and waited on him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>