The following are homilies, images, clipart, video, toon and multimedia slides you might find useful for your celebration of the First Sunday of Lent (Year C). In this Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus fasted forty days and forty nights in the wilderness. Then the devil appeared to Jesus and tempted him. Jesus refused each temptation and once the temptations were over, the devil departed.
READINGS
FIRST READING: Dt 26:4-10
PSALM: Ps 91:1-2, 10-11, 12-13, 14-15
SECOND READING: Rom 10:8-13
GOSPEL: Lk 4:1-13
VIDEO
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HOMILIES
- Not Settling for Pleasure [www.bible.claret.org]
The extraordinary story that we read in today’s Gospel is a sort of Psycho-drama which tells us what becoming human meant to Jesus. It meant that he, like us, had to struggle with the temptation to settle for pleasure rather that to aim at transcendence. Not only that but the tempter wanted him to use his divinity to escape the human struggle. He wanted him to avoid accepting his humanity by solving his problems through miracles. He wanted him to settle for an easy pleasure, as we all tend to desire, rather than to aim at transcendence. Read more… - Tempted by the Devil [dailyscripture.net]
Jesus was tempted like us and he overcame sin not by his own human effort but by the grace and strength which his Father gave to him. He had to renounce his will for the will of his Father. He succeeded because he wanted to please his Father and he trusted that his Father would give him the strength to overcome the obstacles that stood in the way. Read more… - First Sunday of Lent [www.catholicmatters.com]
There are few, if any, amongst us who can honestly say: “I am free from such inclinations or temptations.” The vast majority of us can and should beat our breasts and say with the publican: “O God, be merciful to me a sinner.” And merciful he will be if we turn to him with true humility. He may not remove all our temptations, all our wrong inclinations, but he will give us the grace to overcome them if we sincerely seek his aid. Read more…
SLIDE PRESENTATION
The following presentation can be downloaded here.
GOSPEL TOON
By ReverendFun
IMAGES
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Temptation of Jesus by karmafiendl
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CLIPART
by Misioneros Del Sagrado Corazón (Perú)
by Maximino Cerezo
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