Posts by Gerard DeMarco, Lay Leader, C.L.S.

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2021 Lenten Devotional

by Gerard DeMarco, Lay Leader, C.L.S.

Day 02 Thursday 02 18 Luke 9:22-25 22 “The Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.” 23 Then he said to them all, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and […]

2021 Lenten Devotional

by Gerard DeMarco, Lay Leader, C.L.S.

BIBLE STUDY TEXT FOR SUNDAY 02-21 (Use page Sunday 02-21 for notes and questions) 01 Ash Wednesday 02-17 Matthew 6:1-6 1 “Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven. 2 “So whenever you give alms, do not sound […]

2021 Lenten Devotional Introduction

by Gerard DeMarco, Lay Leader, C.L.S.

In the Christian world, the most sacred of days is Easter Sunday, the day we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus. The forty days (excluding Sundays) that precede Easter is known as Lent.  It is a time when Christians focus on Sacrifice (fasting), Repentance, and Preparation for a renewed relationship with […]

2020 Lenten Devotional Easter Sunday

Because God loves us so much, He has given us freewill, the ability to choose between right from wrong. God already knows that while we could choose His path, some of us will choose otherwise and sin against Him. The pain of a loving parent, who watches a child make a bad decision, or a […]

2020 Lenten Devotional 40 Saturday 04-11

40 Saturday 04-11 John 15:17-27 17 I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another. 18 “If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you. 19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong […]

2020 Lenten Devotional 39 Friday 04-10

39 Friday 04-10 John 14:22-31 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?” 23 Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our […]

2020 Lenten Devotional 38 Thursday 04-09

38 Thursday 04-09 Luke 8:43-48 43 Now there was a woman who had been suffering from hemorrhages for twelve years; and though she had spent all she had on physicians, no one could cure her. 44 She came up behind him and touched the fringe of his clothes, and immediately her hemorrhage stopped. 45 Then […]

2020 Lenten Devotional 37 Wednesday 04-08

37 Wednesday 04-08 John 14:15-21 15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. 17 This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You […]

2020 Lenten Devotional 36 Tuesday 04-07

36 Tuesday 04-07 Mark 12:18-27 18 Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him a question, saying, 19 “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no child, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. 20 […]

2020 Lenten Devotional 35 Monday 04-06

35 Monday 04-06 Matthew 21:28-31 28 “What do you think? A man had two sons; he went to the first and said, “Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’ 29 He answered, “I will not’; but later he changed his mind and went. 30 The father went to the second and said the same; […]