Catholic Readings for 3/10/19 First Sunday of Lent 2019
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Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit for xl days in the wilderness, tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days; and when they were ended, he was hungry. The devil said to him, "If yous are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread." And Jesus answered him, "It is written, ' Human being shall not live by bread alone.'" And the devil took him up. and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of fourth dimension, and said to him, "To you lot I will requite all this dominance and their glory; for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will. If y'all, and so, will worship me, information technology shall all be yours." And Jesus answered him, "It is written, ' Yous shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall yous serve.' "
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Sunday Readings for Year C:
The first reading is from Deuteronomy 26: four-x. In these verses we accept the ritual prescribed by Moses for the feast of the harvest thanksgiving. The people once settled in the Promised Land are to show their gratitude to the practiced God who brought them out of the slavery of Arab republic of egypt and gave them this adept land to exist their dwelling.
The second reading is from St. Paul to the Romans 10: 8-13. He is discussing the deplorable fact that Israel (as a whole) rejected Christ equally the promised Messiah and the Son of God.
The Gospel is from St. Luke 5:1-xi. Christ's voluntary cocky-mortification of forty days' fast, with its accompanying temptations, was but part of the self-mortification, with its climax on the Cross, which He gladly underwent for our salvation. He did non demand to fast in club to keep the inclinations of the trunk in subjection, He did not need to let the insult of temptation. He could take said, "begone Satan" at the offset every bit hands and as effectively every bit be said information technology at the cease. But He willingly underwent this humiliation in order to fix us an example and to bear witness to us the space love He bears united states and the value, the priceless value, He sets on our eternal salvation. He became like us in all things (except sin) in lodge to make it possible for u.s. to get like Him—the beloved of his Father—and co-heirs with Him in the kingdom of sky.
With this case given us by Christ no Christian can or should expect to travel the road to heaven without coming together obstacles and temptations. Our weak human nature is of itself, even without any external tempter, a source of many temptations to us, especially of those three illustrated in the example of Christ. Our body desires all the pleasures and comforts that can be got out of life and resents any curtailment of these desires fifty-fifty on the part of our Creator and Distributor. Our gifts of intelligence and free-will often tempt most of u.s.a. to look for power, political or economic, over our fellowmen. We want to exist better off than others in this earth, when our purpose in life is to assist ourselves and our fellowmen to the amend life. Finally. so fully occupied are many in the mad rush after pleasance and power that they have no fourth dimension to devote to the 1 affair that matters, the attainment of eternal life.
Yet, through some foolish logic of our ain, we expect God to do for united states of america what nosotros refuse to do for ourselves. We are tempting God past presuming he volition save us if we have deliberately called the route to perdition.
In that location are few, if any, amongst us who can honestly say: "I am free from such inclinations or temptations." The vast majority of u.s.a. can and should beat our breasts and say with the publican: "O God, exist merciful to me a sinner." And merciful he will exist if we turn to him with true humility. He may not remove all our temptations, all our wrong inclinations, only he will give united states of america the grace to overcome them if we sincerely seek his assistance.
Excerpted from The Sun Readings by Fr. Kevin O'Sullivan, O.F.Yard.
Beginning Sunday of Lent
Station at St. John Lateran (San Giovanni in Laterano):
The Station today is at St. John Lateran which is the seat of the Roman Pontiff, and the cathedral church for the Diocese of Rome. The official proper noun of the basilica in Italian is Santissimo Salvatore e Santi Giovanni Battista ed Evangelista in Laterano. The Lateran is comprised of the Basilica, the Pontifical Palace and the Baptistry. The church is dedicated to the Christ the Savior. In the fifth century the titles of St. John Baptist and St. John the Evangelist were added. The Papal altar contains the wooden altar on which St. Peter is said to have celebrated Mass. This basilica is the female parent of all churches and is the simply church which has the championship of Archbasilica.
Commentary for the Readings in the Extraordinary Form:
First Lord's day of Lent
"Not by bread alone does man live, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God" (Gospel).
1. In this motion picture the devil points to the breadstuff of fleshly desire. "Now is the adequate time" to "ration" our self-indulgence, our worship of concrete culture (Epistle), and to feed our souls with the Divine Give-and-take. This temptation calls for the mortification of self.
2. The "pinnacle of the temple" (in the upper left corner), recalls the pride of usurping God's ability, of trying to live across His reach. Nosotros must topple ourselves from the pinnacle of pride and lift ourselves upwardly past prayer to the pinnacle of God Himself.
3. The "kingdoms of the world," seen in the distance (in middle of pic), represent those who covet mere earthly "celebrity." To offset this temptation there must be almsgiving or devoting one's talents to the service of one'due south neighbor.
The Epistle exhorts us not to receive "in vain" this plan of personal reformation, commencement by warning, then by encouraging united states of america in the eternal struggle between Christ and Antichrist.
Excerpted from My Dominicus Missal, Confraternity of the Precious Blood
Source: https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2019-03-10
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