Lent

Having descended the Mount of Transfiguration, let us now resume our journey. The Third Sunday of Lent takes us to Samaria, to the town of Sychar to be precise, which is near Mt. Gerizim in the heart of Palestine. Tired and thirsty, Jesus stops at the local well, where he meets a woman who has… Read more »

What is the light radiating from the Mount of Transfiguration? Let us try to identify the path Jesus is silently following from the desert of testing to the Mount of the divine Presence. It is interesting to note that during the first week of Lent the Holy Spirit was the protagonist, conducting Jesus into the… Read more »

On this First Sunday of Lent, we are all illuminated by the special light that comes from the desert of testing. Jesus was led by the Spirit out into the desert to be put to the test. The word “test” is actually the passive form of the verb peirazo, which, in its turn, is a… Read more »

From the Gospel according to John Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning he came again to the temple; all the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the… Read more »

From the Gospel according to Luke Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” And he said, “There was a man who had two sons; and the younger of them said to his father,… Read more »

From the Gospel according to Luke There were some present at that very time who told him of the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered thus? I tell you, No; but… Read more »

Lord, put me to the test!   READINGS: Dt. 26:4-10; Ps. 90; Rm. 10:8-13; Lk. 4,1-13 The Gospel According to Luke Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during… Read more »