...a Spiritu, ut tentaretur a diabolo. Et cum ieiunasset quadraginta diebus et quadraginta noctibus, postea esuriit."
"My bread is to do the will of Him who sent me."
"The temptation in the desert shows Jesus, the humble Messiah, who triumphs over Satan by his total adherence to the plan of salvation willed by the Father." (CCC 566)
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Deus, qui Ecclesiam tuam annua Quadragesimali observatione purificas: praesta familiae tuae; ut quod a te obtinere abstinendo nititur, hoc bonis operibus exsequatur.
Per Dominum nostrum Iesum Christum Filium qui tecum, vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti, Deus, per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen.
Meeting Christ in the Liturgy offers a reflection for Dominica I in Quadragesima.
The Life of St Mark the Evangelist in Art
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St Mark, whose feast is kept today, is the only evangelist who records that
when the soldiers came to arrest Christ in the garden, “a certain young man
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