Eco Lectionary notes year A Lent 1-3

Keynsham Methodist Church

ECO-HINTS FROM THE LECTIONARY


Lent 1 to Lent 3 Year A

First Sunday in Lent

Genesis 2: 15-17, 3: 1-7
Psalm 32 (H&P 845)
Romans 5: 12-19
Matthew 4: 1-11

You could spend some time unpacking the
Genesis mythology of ’the tree of knowledge’.
This reading parallels the Gospel reading of
the Temptations, which raise ecological
issues; both suggest that the human vocation
is to ‘till and keep’ (NRSV) or ‘cultivate and
guard’ (GNB). Poverty was a challenge in...