Thursday after Ash Wednesday: Expulsion

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The readings for Lent start in a place of confession and death, of acknowledging our brokenness, our sin, that we will all die. From that place of ending, we quickly return to the beginning. For the Judeo-Christian tradition, this means back to the story of creation and the Garden of Eden.

Except that since Lent is focused on sin and purification, the early readings focus on these early sins in…