First Sunday In Lent 2022
This Friday begins Stations of the Cross and this is an appropriate devotion for Lent that was begun by our Mother of Sorrows. Fasting and abstinence began on Ash Wednesday and their origins go back to Noah. These practices are essential to our Lenten retreat days. This week is the feast of St. Dominic Savio who was a student of St. John Bosco and died young at the age of 15. This account of his spiritual life is moving and an exemplary example for the young of all ages. Finally, we learn from today’s Gospel about Our Lord’s temptations in the dessert after His forty days of fasting at the beginning of His public life. The devil was permitted to tempt the Son of God without the least degree of success; however, the devil vents his anger against God now through his attacks on us, especially during holy times like this season preparing us for Holy Week and Easter.
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