IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND today’s Gospel we need to put it into context. Peter had just,…
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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 – 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
THE GOSPEL of today’s Mass always features the temptations of Jesus in the desert. It clearly…