First Sunday of Lent: Jesus is Tempted by Satan

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🗓️ 21 February 2015

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The Gospel for the Mass of the First Sunday of Lent (Mark 1:12-15) tells of Jesus' forty days and temptation in the desert. In today's meditation, Fr Javier del Castillo asks us to contemplate Jesus' temptation as we begin the first week of Lent "to learn how to say yes to our Father God and to renounce Satan." And, we can learn to do that by understanding temptation and recognizing our personal struggles with temptations. In particular, Fr Javier draws our attention to three important chara...

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0:00.0	In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
0:04.0	My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here,
0:10.0	that you see me, that you hear me.
0:13.0	I adore you with profound reverence.
0:15.0	I beg your pardon for my sins and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful. My immaculate mother, St. Joseph,
0:24.8	my father and Lord, my guardian angel intercede for me.
0:34.8	In this first Sunday of Lent, the church contemplates a very mysterious scene in our Lord's life.
0:50.0	At the beginning of his public ministry, after he was baptized by John, the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, drives him into the wilderness, into the desert.
1:08.8	And as St. Mark puts it, this in the cycle of readings that we will read in the Mass for
1:18.6	the first Sunday of Lent, there he was for 40 days and 40 nights being tempted by Satan.
1:30.3	And he was with wild beasts and the angels ministered to him.
1:35.3	It's a very short account of the temptations of our Lord.
1:40.3	Unlike the other accounts by St. Matthew and St. Luke, who give us more detail as to what those temptations actually were.
1:54.0	But the fact that our Lord wanted to be tempted says so much to us.
2:03.3	It gives us hours and hours of meditation to contemplate a God who wants to feel the tug
2:12.3	of temptation.
2:16.6	He wants to actually feel our weakness
2:22.3	to the point that he even allows Satan
2:28.3	out of all creatures to tempt him.
2:33.3	What an amazing manifestation of humility.
2:39.0	It's not that our Lord is weak.
2:42.0	It's that our Lord, being all-powerful, wants to be like us in all things but sin.
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