The 2007 Lent Course at St Mary’s takes the form of an exploration of the Ten Commandments, as presented to us in Exodus 20 and repeated in Deuteronomy 6. Two Commandments will be covered each week, as shown below. Most of the teaching will take place in the Homily at the Masses on each of the first five Sundays of Lent, allowing more time for questions, discussion and exploration in the hour-long sessions that will normally take place at 10am on Tuesday mornings and 7pm on Wednesday evenings, with exceptions as shown below.
We will explore in general and in particular how each of the Commandments is an expression of how God wants us to live the life that is His gift to us, and how to apply them to our daily lives.
The handouts for each week will be provided here as PDF files, for the benefit of any who want to refer to them or who can’t make it to the sessions – but not as an on-line Lent course that takes the place of the sessions themselves.
February 25th – First Sunday of Lent
1st Commandment (Exodus 20:2-5) ‘I AM the Lord your God … you shall have no gods except me’ and
2nd Commandment (Exodus 20:7) ‘You shall not utter the name of the Lord your God to misuse it.’
NB: No Wednesday evening session this week.
Handout for this session
March 4th – Second Sunday of Lent
3rd Commandment (Exodus 20:8-10) ‘Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy’ and
4th Commandment (Exodus 20:12) ‘Honour your father and mother’
Handout for this session
March 11th – Third Sunday of Lent
5th Commandment (Exodus 20:13) ‘You shall not kill’ and
6th Commandment (Exodus 20:14) ‘You shall not commit adultery’
Handout for this session
March 18th – Fourth Sunday of Lent
7th Commandment (Exodus 20:15) ‘You shall not steal’ and
8th Commandment (Exodus 20:16) ‘You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour’
Handout for this session
March 25th – Fifth Sunday of Lent
9th Commandment (Exodus 20:17) ‘You shall not covet … your neighbour’s wife’ and10th Commandment (Exodus 20:17)
‘You shall not covet … your neighbour’s houseor his servant, man or woman, or his ox, or his donkey or anything that is his’
Handout for this session
