'... DO NOT live by bread alone man "!
Lent begins with the invitation to conversion for all Christians so that they become traveling companions for the catechumens elected to the sacraments of Christian initiation. The journey to Easter begins with the story of the fall of our first parents, caught in the net of the devil who seduces them with false appeals. To their miserable fate, which marks the final man with original sin, is opposed to Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the only one who can fight and defeat Satan to free every man from sin's power.
The Gospel presents Jesus Christ in the desert, beset by claims of the opponent, but strong and ready to respond with the word of God to the temptation. These represent a typical tale of action of the devil who offers the temptation of the desire of the bread, the superstition that God wants to use the temptation to throw himself from the proposal and of power.
The Gospel tells these three temptations, however, sum up the whole act of Satan, which aims to turn away from God's response to Jesus culminates in the statement: "Worship the Lord your God ..." . In this conversion we are invited in this time of grace ..
Elis Siviero
Courtesy of LA Saint Paul Sunday Magazine