Sunday 22 February

First Sunday in Lent

Genesis 9:8-15; Psalm 25; 1 Peter 3:18-22;
Mark 1:12-15

Faith and repentance

In Baptism we died with Christ and rose with him to share in his resurrection; to share in the new life of the Good News of God’s kingdom. This new life lived now reaches beyond this earthly life. This new life is the promise of eternal life already begun with and in God; a promise already being fulfilled in the life we now live with and in Christ. So, each day, we are called to live our baptismal calling: to preach the presence of God’s kingdom through repentance and through our belief in the Good News.