Ashes and Fasting: Lent Has Begun
The Season of Lent began yesterday with Ash Wednesday. The ashes that begin the season point us towards the ultimate end of the season. Lent will end with…
Money and Power
Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor; and he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you…
Suspending the Laws of Physics
Then the devil took him to the holy city and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, saying to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written…
Tempted by Food
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished. The tempter came…
Fruits Worthy of Repentance
[And John said to them], “Bear fruits worthy of repentance.”…And the crowds asked him, “What then should we do?” In reply he said to them…
Baptism and Forgiveness
John the baptizer appeared in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And people from the whole Judean countryside and all the people of…