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INTRODUCTIONToday’s gospel tells of Jesus’ temptation in the desert. His forty-day fast becomes the basis of our Lenten pilgrimage. In the early church Lent was

Our God makes all things new. In the first reading God promises it. In the gospel Mary anticipates it, anointing Jesus’ feet with costly perfume

The psalm sets the tone this day: “Happy are they whose transgressions are forgiven, and whose sin is put away!” Happy are those who have

The warnings are plentiful and blunt on the third Sunday in Lent. Cut it out or get cut down! The warnings are accompanied by God’s

Though we sometimes doubt and often resist God’s desire to protect and save us, our God persists. In holy baptism, God’s people have been called

God promises Jeremiah that a “new covenant” will be made in the future: a covenant that will allow all the people to know God by

The fourth of the Old Testament promises providing a baptismal lens this Lenten season is the promise God makes to Moses: those who look on

The third covenant in this year’s Lenten readings is the central one of Israel’s history: the gift of the law to those God freed from