14 - 1st Sunday of Lent

Readings and Gospel

Lectionary for this day - This has all the readings and Gospel

Genesis 9:8-15 - Covenant with Noah

[1st Letter of] Peter 3:18-22 - Christian Suffering

Matthew 4:4b - The Temptation of Jesus

Mark 1:12-15 - The Temptation of Jesus and The Beginning of His Galilean Ministry

Who / What / Where is...?

Genesis

• Genesis is the first book of the Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy), the first section of the Jewish and the Christian Scriptures. Its title in English, “Genesis,” comes from the Greek of Genesis 2:4, literally, “the book of the generation (genesis) of the heavens and earth.” Its title in the Jewish Scriptures is the opening Hebrew word, Bereshit, “in the beginning.”

• More information about Genesis

Noah

• 10th generation from Adam (as 1st generation)

• Lived for 950 years

• Died around 2,000 years before Jesus was born (or became man)

• God told him to build the ark.

• The person who, with his family, was saved from the Great Flood.

Simon Peter, Cephas 

• Apostles of Jesus

• Also known as Peter the Apostle, Peter the Rock, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas

• He was later given by Jesus the name Cephas, from the Aramaic כֵּיפָא, Kepha, 'rock/stone'.

• He was one of the 12 apostles of Jesus.

  • 12 Apostles - the first 12 people that Jesus called to follow Him.

• Considered as the first Pope of the Catholic Church.

• More about the first letter of St Peter

Matthew

• He was a tax collector. He was one of the 12 apostles of Jesus.

  • • 12 Apostles - the first 12 people that Jesus called to follow Him.

Mark

• He was the travel companion and interpreter of Peter. He was one of the 12 apostles of Jesus.

  • • 12 Apostles - the first 12 people that Jesus called to follow Him.

Reflections and Teachings

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