Opening the scriptures: setting our hearts on fire.
Bringing the study to a close.
Coinciding with the end of our Lent / Easter course for 2020, the Gospel reading for this coming Sunday, 26 April 2020, in the Common Worship Lectionary and the Roman Catholic Lectionary, is the story of the Road to Emmaus.
Our course starts and ends with Luke 24.13-35 and concludes with the prayer:
Jesus our Way,
Strange story teller who has become for us the story,
Living word through whom the eternal God shines out,
Meet us face to face this Eastertide.
Stay with us and open for us the scriptures,
Illumine our eyes and set our hearts on fire,
So that with you as companion on our journey,
With joy we will be enabled to discover
That the key to unlock this mysterious library is always love.
Amen.
Our study can still be downloaded below.
About the Lent study.
What biblical text sets your heart on fire?
This question is central to our Lent course for 2020.
This phrase is drawn from one of the most evocative and treasured New Testament episodes – the account of a mysterious stranger who meets two people journeying on the road to Emmaus, whose identity is eventually revealed as the three of them break bread together (Luke 24: 13-38). After the realisation dawns that their fellow traveller was none other than Jesus himself, the two disciples say to each other: ‘Were not our hearts burning within us…’
Taking this biblical story as its starting point, the course invites us to ‘open the scriptures’ and read them with with both our hearts and our heads.
We are grateful to Dr Clare Amos for writing the study.
Year of the Word – 2020
A number of churches in Britain and Ireland are keeping 2020 as ‘the Year of the Word’ so this course, with its focus on scripture, will be an ideal resource for Lent 2020.
Resources
Artwork link for Sacrifice of Isaac, Marc Chagall
For copyright reasons, we are not able to include a photo of the picture within current versions of the resource, but it can be viewed online at:
Marc Chagall, Le sacrifice d’Isaac, Marc Chagall Museum, Nice, France.
English
Lent study 2020 – Opening the Scriptures (PDF, 13.7MB)
Lent 2020 – Opening the Scriptures (accessible text only) (Docx)
Welsh / English
Lent study 2020 – Welsh – Agor yr Ysgrythurau (PDF, 94 pages A4, 18.6MB)
Lent study 2020 – Welsh (booklet version) – Agor yr Ysgrythurau (PDF, 96 pages A4, 18.6MB)
This version has 2 blank pages in the middle and can be printed as a booklet.
Grawys 2020 – Agor yr Ysgrythurau (accessible text only – Welsh) (Docx)
