2nd Sunday of Lent – Elected to Serve

Introduction “The Lord has chosen you—Moses says to Israel—from among all the peoples on the face…

1st Sunday of Lent – Life and Love, Death and Sin

On the Cross love was confronted by sin and death. This confrontation reached its climax on…

1st Sunday of Lent

The greatest hunger is the hunger for love.” Mother Teresa said this often, and, after her…

1st Sunday of Lent – Temptation

They had lost their innocense.  The first effects of their sin was that their eyes were…

1st Sunday of Lent – The temptation of an illusory happiness

Introduction In common parlance, to be tempted means to feel attracted to what is forbidden. It…

1st Sunday of Lent – FIRST IMPRESSIONS 2

We are not computers with pre-installed programs wired into us. God could have created us that…

1st Sunday of Lent – FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Lent is a time when those catechumens (“elect”) who are preparing for Christian initiation at the…

1st Sunday of Lent

We are now on the First Sunday of Lent by which we are intending these 40…

1st Sunday of Lent

THE GOSPEL of today’s Mass always features the temptations of Jesus in the desert.  It clearly…

1st Sunday of Lent – The temptation of an illusory happiness

Introduction In common parlance, to be tempted means to feel attracted to what is forbidden. It…