Repairing The Breach

Music for meditation time REYN - Un Dimanche Orageux www.youtube.com/watch?v=85JZjY6HwUI Stephan Moccio - Winter Waltz www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka77LHtLOis Personal Reflection The authors for each of the studies for this series have been asked to reflect on their texts in light of the core Scriptural text for Lent 2022, and the theme, ‘Repairing the Breach’. Luke 4.18-19 ‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, (Ash Wednesday) because he has anointed me (Lent 1) to bring good news to the poor. (Lent 2) He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives (Lent 3) and recovery of sight to the blind, (Lent 4) to let the oppressed go free, (Lent 5) to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.’ (Passion or Palm Sunday) …because he has anointed me…. The practice of anointing originally involved pouring aromatic oil over someone’s head (or body), but nowadays is typically simply marking someone’s forehead. In many church traditions such anointing oil is called ‘chrism oil’, meaning ‘anointing oil’. From earliest days, anointing in this way recognised the presence of God’s spirit upon the person and this is reflected in the Luke 4 passage. 33