Lent with Jesus, Week 2: March 6/7, 2022
Lesson
Psalm 32 Responsive Reading Text
Additional Resources
Confession and Self-Examination Guide
Weekly Lenten Prayers (Collects)
Chapter: Psalm 32
Psalms Group, for January 17, 2020
In Psalm 32, the psalmist happily thanks God for forgiving his sin which had led to intense physical and emotional duress. This forgiveness came in response to his confession and repentance. Psalm 32 is a penitential psalm (along with Psalms 6, 38, 51, 102, 130, and 143), but it is not sorrowful because it is a prayer of thanks for God’s grace of forgiveness. It also contains elements of wisdom teaching, using this psalmist’s experience of confession, repentance and forgiveness to teach others.
Email to the Psalms Group preparing for Sunday, January 17, 2021
Dear Psalms friends,
The “way” we have been traveling the past 2 weeks—with Psalms 1 and 2 and then Psalms 15 and 24, plus hearing Fr. Paul’s sermon last Sunday calling us to repentance from contempt—makes a focus on Psalm 32 seem timely. Of course, it’s a well-known psalm of thanksgiving and wisdom instruction that poetically contemplates the joy of forgiveness. It teaches us about our sin’s destructiveness and how God awakens us to repentance and to confession of sin.