Forty Days and Forty Nights

Since we can't sing this as a congregation this year, sing along at home with the choir and congregation of Bradford Cathedral in West Yorkshire, England in this video (lyrics included). 

This of course refers to the reading for the first Sunday in Lent from Mark 1:9-15 in which Jesus is driven into the wilderness by the Spirit and faced Satan's temptations.

In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit descending like a dove on him. And a voice came from heaven, ‘You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.’

And the Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. He was in the wilderness for forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels waited on him.

Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news.’

I know that I will be sorely tempted to sing "Forty Days and Forty Nights" aloud on church today although I cannot.