Jesus is Tempted in the Desert

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 29 February 2004

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Jesus is driven by the Spirit into the desert in order to be tempted by the devil. The three temptations--to sensual pleasure, to power, and to pride--respresent three fundamental ways that all of us can be distracted from the path that God wants us to walk. It is therefore a salutary Lenten exercise to attend carefully to the texture of Jesus' responses.

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0:10.9	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:15.1	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:21.7	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:26.0	Word of Love for each of us.
0:28.3	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us who we might speak with love
0:33.7	about the One who is love.
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0:41.6	the Word on Fire.
0:44.0	Please be with you.
0:45.9	Friends we come now to the great season of Lent, this wonderful penitential season
0:51.7	when we come to terms with what God wants us to be.
0:57.5	We come to terms with the meaning and purpose of our lives.
1:02.7	The text the church gives us today is a very powerful one.
1:06.5	It's the temptation story from the gospel of Luke.
1:10.9	Listen to how it begins.
1:13.1	Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into
1:19.2	the desert for 40 days where he was tempted by the devil.
1:25.2	As Jesus begins his public work, he begins his public ministry.
1:31.3	He must clarify what he is about.
1:35.3	He must clarify who he is and the means chosen is temptation.
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