Lent I

Taken by Rev Jeremy Allcock, Vicar, St Stephen’s Westbourne Park and Area Dean of the Paddington Deanery

O LORD, who for our sake didst fast forty days and forty nights; Give us grace to use such abstinence, that, our flesh being subdued to the Spirit, we may ever obey thy godly motions in righteousness, and true holiness, to thy honour and glory, who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.

The Epistle. 2 Corinthians 6:1. 

The Gospel. St. Matthew 4:1.