Matthew 4:1-11: First Sunday of Lent A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. – C.S. Lewis,…
Day: March 5, 2017
Time-Tested Bait – Willy Samson, SJ
Matthew 4:1-11, First Sunday of Lent Today is the first Sunday of Lent. We continue our 40 days of prayerful reflection and consideration of our struggles against the power of evil in our daily life. Like Jesus, we have our own bouts with evil and his temptations. With contrite heart, we do have our failures against…
The Devil Leaves No Stone Unturned – Johnny Go, SJ
Matthew 4:1-11, First Sunday of Lent In the desert our Lord Jesus undergoes three temptations. One of them seems out of place. One doesn’t seem to belong with the other two. Can you tell which one? Let’s review the three temptation. In the first temptation, our Lord is tempted to sate his hunger–a hunger that…
Thou Shalt Not – Rudolf Horst, SVD
Matthew 4:1-11, First Sunday of Lent A pilgrimage to the Holy Land brings us always to Jericho. The busses stop at the foot of a high mountain with a Greek Orthodox Monastery halfway up carved in the rock. But the people leaving the busses usually don’t look up to the monastery and the mountain but…
One Lost Sheep 