1st Sunday of Lent

8To Noah and to his sons with him, God also said this: 9“Behold, I will establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you, 10and with every living soul that is with you: as much with the birds as with the cattle and all the animals of the earth that have gone forth from the ark, and with all the wild beasts of the earth. 11I will establish my covenant with you, and no longer will all that is flesh be put to death by the waters of a great flood, and, henceforth, there will not be a great flood to utterly destroy the earth.” 12And God said: “This is the sign of the pact that I grant between me and you, and to every living soul that is with you, for perpetual generations. 13I will place my arc in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the pact between myself and the earth. 14And when I obscure the sky with clouds, my arc will appear in the clouds. 15And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that enlivens flesh. And there will no longer be waters from a great flood to wipe away all that is flesh.

4May all those who act unjustly over nothing be confounded. O Lord, demonstrate your ways to me, and teach me your paths.

5Direct me in your truth, and teach me. For you are God, my Savior, and I remain with you all day long.

6O Lord, remember your compassion and your mercies, which are from ages past.

7Do not remember the offenses of my youth and my ignorances. Remember me according to your mercy, because of your goodness, O Lord.

8The Lord is sweet and righteous. Because of this, he will grant a law to those who fall short in the way.

9He will direct the mild in judgment. He will teach the meek his ways.

18For Christ also died once for our sins, the Just One on behalf of the unjust, so that he might offer us to God, having died, certainly, in the flesh, but having been enlivened by the Spirit. 19And in the Spirit, he preached to those who were in prison, going to those souls 20who had been unbelieving in past times, while they waited for the patience of God, as in the days of Noah, when the ark was being built. In that ark, a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water. 21And now you also are saved, in a similar manner, by baptism, not by the testimony of sordid flesh, but by the examination of a good conscience in God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 22He is at the right hand of God, devouring death, so that we may be made heirs to eternal life. And since he has journeyed to heaven, the Angels and powers and virtues are subject to him.

12And immediately the Spirit prompted him into the desert. 13And he was in the desert for forty days and forty nights. And he was tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the Angels ministered to him. 14Then, after John was handed over, Jesus went into Galilee, preaching the Gospel of the kingdom of God, 15and saying: “For the time has been fulfilled and the kingdom of God has drawn near. Repent and believe in the Gospel.”