paredōken παρέδωκεν τὸ πνεῦμα  HE YIELDED UP HIS SPIRIT

JN 18:1—19:42 JN 18:1—19:42    When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four shares, a share for each soldier. They also took his tunic, but the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the top down. So they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it will be, “in order that the passage of Scripture might be fulfilled that says: They divided my garments among them, and for my vesture they cast lots. This is what the soldiers did. Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.  After this, aware that everything was now finished, in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I thirst.” There was a vessel filled with common wine. So, they put a sponge soaked in wine on a sprig of hyssop and put it up to his mouth. When Jesus had taken the wine, he said, “It is finished.” And bowing his head, he handed over the spirit.  

Jesus was totally committed to and was one with the Words of His Father.
JN 8:21-30  Jesus said to the Pharisees: "I am going away and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come." So the Jews said, "He is not going to kill himself, is he, because he said, 'Where I am going you cannot come'?" He said to them, "You belong to what is below, I belong to what is above. You belong to this world, but I do not belong to this world. That is why I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I AM, you will die in your sins." So they said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "What I told you from the beginning. I have much to say about you in condemnation. But the one who sent me is true, and what I heard from him I tell the world." They did not realize that he was speaking to them of the Father. So Jesus said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own, but I say only what the Father taught me. The one who sent me is with me.  He has not left me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to him." Because he spoke this way, many came to believe in him.

Or JN 12:12-16                      When the great crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, they took palm branches and went out to meet him, and cried out: "Hosanna! "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the king of Israel." Jesus found an ass and sat upon it, as is written: Fear no more, O daughter Zion; see, your king comes, seated upon an ass's colt. His disciples did not understand this at first, but when Jesus had been glorified they remembered that these things were written about him  and that they had done this for him.

JN 8:51-59     Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is worth nothing; but it is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, 'He is our God.' You do not know him, but I know him. And if I should say that I do not know him, I would be like you a liar. But I do know him and I keep his word.  Abraham your father rejoiced to see my day; he saw it and was glad."  So the Jews said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old and you have seen Abraham?" Jesus said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM." So they picked up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid and went out of the temple area.

JN 8:21-30 Jesus said to the Pharisees: "I am going away and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come." So the Jews said, "He is not going to kill himself, is he, because he said, 'Where I am going you cannot come'?" He said to them, "You belong to what is below, I belong to what is above. You belong to this world, but I do not belong to this world. That is why I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I AM, you will die in your sins." So they said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "What I told you from the beginning. I have much to say about you in condemnation. But the one who sent me is true, and what I heard from him I tell the world." They did not realize that he was speaking to them of the Father. So Jesus said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own, but I say only what the Father taught me. The one who sent me is with me.  He has not left me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to him." Because he spoke this way, many came to believe in him.

Gospel JN 5:31-47 Jesus said to the Jews:  the Father who sent me has testified on my behalf. But you have never heard his voice nor seen his form, and you do not have his word remaining in you, because you do not believe in the one whom he has sent. You search the Scriptures, because you think you have eternal life through them; even they testify on my behalf. But you do not want to come to me to have life.  "I do not accept human praise; moreover, I know that you do not have the love of God in you.  I came in the name of my Father, but you do not accept me; yet if another comes in his own name, you will accept him. How can you believe, when you accept praise from one another and do not seek the praise that comes from the only God? Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father: the one who will accuse you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope. For if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me, because he wrote about me.  But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"

Gospel JN 7:40-53     Some in the crowd who heard Jesus’ words said, "This is really the Prophet?" Others said, "This is the Christ." But others questioned, " Will Christ come from Galilee? Does not Scripture say that the Christ will be of David's family and come from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?" So a dispute broke out in the crowd because of him. Some of them even wanted to detain him, but no one arrested him.  So the police went to the chief priests and Pharisees, and asked them, "Why did you not detain him?" They answered, "Never before has anyone spoken like this man." So the Pharisees answered them, "Have you also been deceived? Do any of the authorities or the Pharisees believe in him? But these people are ignorant of the law and are lost." Nicodemus, one of their members who was with Jesus earlier, said to them, “Does our law condemn a person before listening to the accused to find out the facts of the case?" They answered and said to him, "You are not from Galilee are you? Look and be aware that no prophet can come from Galilee."

The spiritual woman is one who, "whether she eats or drinks or whatever else she does, does all for the glory of God" (1 Cor. 10:31). Again, this does not mean that she merely registers in her mind an intellectual intention to glorify God. It means that in all her actions she is free from conventional routine. It means that in all that she does she acts freely, simply, spontaneously, from the depths of her heart, moved by love.

True power over evil that we all share by faith.
Gospel   LK 11:14-23 Jesus was driving out a demon that was mute, and when the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke and the crowds were amazed. Some of them said, "By the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he drives out demons." Others, to test him, asked him for a sign from heaven. But he knew their thoughts and said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste and house will fall against house. And if Satan is divided against himself,  how will his kingdom stand? For you say that it is by Beelzebul that I drive out demons. If I, then, drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your own people drive them out? Therefore they will be your judges. But if it is by the finger of God that I drive out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come upon you. When a strong man fully armed guards his palace, his possessions are safe. But when one stronger than he attacks and overcomes him, he takes away the armor on which he relied and distributes the spoils. Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters."

During Lent we want to enter into an intimate contact with truth itself, with God. We want to experience the deepest realities of life by living them. Meditation is the means to that end. 
Gospel LK 4:24-30 Jesus said to the people in the synagogue at Nazareth: “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place. Certainly, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the sky was closed for three and a half years and a severe starvation spread over the entire land. It was to none of these that Elijah was sent, but only to a widow in Zarephath in the land of Sidon. Again, there were many lepers in Israel during the time of Elisha the prophet; yet not one of them was purified, but only Naaman the Syrian.” When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were all filled with fury. They rose up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built, to throw him down headlong. But he passed through the middle of them and went away. 

Gospel JN 2:13-25 Since the Passover of the Jews was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. He found in the temple area merchants who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, as well as the money changers. He made a whip out of cords and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and oxen, and scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables, and to those who sold doves he said, "Take these out of here, and stop making my Father's home a marketplace." His disciples recalled the words of Scripture, Zeal for your house will consume me. At this the Jews answered and said to him, "What sign can you show us for doing this?" Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up." The Jews said, “This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and you will raise it up in three days?" But he was speaking about the temple of his body.

----The Second Temple was the Jewish Holy Temple which stood on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem during the Second Temple period, between 516 BCE and 70 CE. According to Jewish tradition, it replaced Solomon's Temple (the First Temple), which was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE

 Gospel MK 6:7-13 Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over infected spirits. He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick –no food, no sack, no money in their belts. They were, however, to wear sandals but not a second tunic. He said to them, "Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you move on from there. Whatever place does not welcome you or listen to you, leave there and shake the soil off your feet in testimony against them." So they went off and preached repentance. The Twelve drove out many demons, and they anointed with oil many men and women who were sick and cured them.