This is the movement of the Holy Family.

So welcome to our daily rosary meditation.

Today we are at the very place where the devil tempted Jesus in the wilderness immediately after his baptism

where he spent 40 days in prayer and fasting. So let's begin in the name of the Father and

the Son and the Holy Spirit. And let's call to mind all those we've promised to

pray for. Jesus is a divine person, incapable of sin. The divine will is

necessarily perfect. It's part of what it means to be God. So there's no way

Jesus, who is God, could act in a way that was incompatible with his divine nature.

Why then would Jesus go through the motions

of being tempted to sin when sin was precisely what he was incapable of.

First of all, so that he could sympathize with us

in our temptations.

Hebrew chapter 14 tells us that Christ, our high priest, can sympathize with our weakness

since he was tempted like we are but without sin.

In other words, it wasn't just a charade. He did struggle. He did feel the attraction of the goods which

Satan presented to him. He felt that tug of war between the lesser but so desirable good and the greater good God wants for us.

So he knows, by his own experience how powerful temptation can be.

But secondly, so that he could show us how to overcome temptation, what practices, what preparation

can make us ready to choose rightly when evil presents itself as a live option.

Jesus is our example in all things.

And here we need to look carefully at the weapons he brought to his battle with Satan.

Our Father who arts in heaven, hollow it would your name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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