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Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke
1st Lent Sunday
At that time, after his baptism, Jesus, filled with Holy Spirit, left the banks of the Jordan; In the mind, he was led through the desert where, for forty days, he was tempted by the devil. He did not eat anything during these days, and when this time was sold, he was hungry. The devil then said to him: “If you are the son of God, orders this stone to become bread. Jesus replied: “It is written: Man not only lives on bread. Then the devil took him higher and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the earth. He said to him, “I will give you all this power and the glory of these kingdoms, because it was given to me and I give it to whom I want. So you, if you bow down in front of me, you will have it all. Jesus replied, “It is written: It is before the Lord your God that you will bow down, alone you will make a cult. “Then the devil led him to Jerusalem, he placed him at the top of the temple and said to him:” If you are the son of God, from here throw yourself down; Because it is written: he will give his angels for you, the order to keep you; And again: they will take you to their hands, for fear that your foot hitting a stone. Jesus made this answer to him: “It is said: you will not test the Lord your God. Having thus exhausted all the forms of temptations, the devil moved away from Jesus until the fixed moment.
* Chapter 4, verses 1 to 13.
Other readings: Book of Deuteronomy (chapter 26, verses 4 to 10); Psalm 90 (91); Letter from Saint Paul to Christians of Rome (chapter 10, verses 8 to 13).
Under the burning sun
Dominique LangJournalist with the assumptionist pilgrim and religious:
Admittedly, the temptations that Christ is confronted are impressive. But let’s not go too fast. First, said the text, Jesus faces his own human condition, the simplest. Even if the evangelist Luke may have exaggerated the duration of the fast-to make the link between the exhausting and dangerous stay of the Hebrew people in the desert, a few centuries earlier, and that of Jesus-it is undeniable that the latter has reserved a personal time.
Because life in the desert is an ordeal for everyone. Under the burning sun, the body is pushed to the end. And, in cold nights, the presence of wild animals is a permanent threat. It is there that Jesus rooted his prayer, as if to train in this inner struggle, constantly to resume. No wonder he then meets the divider. This cursed snake which, since the dawn of time, comes to lie to our ears. A formidable learning to also recognize it in our daily life.
