A time of Lexio devena for the discerning heart.

Monday of the third week in Lent.

As you begin, take a deep breath andales slowly.

For the next few moments,

surrender all the cares and concerns of this day to the Lord. Say slowly from your heart, Jesus, I trust in you. You take over. Become aware that he is with you,

looking upon you with love,

wanting to be heard deep within your heart.

A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke, chapter 4, verses 24 through 30.

Jesus came to Nazara and spoke to the people in the synagogue.

I tell you solemnly, no prophet has ever accepted in his own

country. There were many widows in Israel, I can assure you in Elijah's day, when heaven remained

shut for three years and six months, and a great famine raged throughout the land. But Elijah was not sent to any one of these.

He was sent to a widow at Zaropath, a Sedonian town.

And, in the prophet Elijah's time, there were many lepers in Israel,

but none of these was cured except the Syrian Naaman.

When they heard this, everyone in the synagogue was enraged. but none of these was cured except the Syrian Naiman.

When they heard this, everyone in the synagogue was enraged.

They sprang to their feet and hustled him out of the town.

And they took him up to the brow of the hill their town was built on,

intending to throw him down the cliff.

But he slipped through the crowd and walked away. What word made this passage come alive for you?

What did you sense the Lord saying to you? Once more, give the Lord an opportunity to speak to you.

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