Gen. 2, 7-9, 3, 1-7;
Sal 50;
Rom. 5, 12-19; \u200b\u200b
Mt 4, 1-11
is goal of Christian life every day. Now at this time, however we want to intensify. Lent with such a great spiritual exercises that last for five weeks with the extension of the passion week to help us prepare to experience the intensity of the paschal mystery of Christ. So today we asked, very beginning of our celebration, " advance the understanding of the mystery of Christ and lived in fullness' .
need to know more and more all that it represents the mystery of Christ, his life, his gospel, the new Kingdom of God tells us, his dedication, his Passover. Knowing that not only know things - many things we know of Christ and we have learned over the years - but steeped in Christ, his life, his love. So we did not stay in the intelligence but we have to go further, to 'lived in fullness' to make life of our life.
All this we know. There is nothing new for us. However, we recibilo as a good news, good and new news we have to let us captivate. Because the routine of days ago that many times we go cold, lose intensity and reach the whole giving no importance to our lives. We can not get tired to consider, meditate, ruminate all that Christ does for us, all that Christ gives us. Because we face many temptations that distract us and we can move away.
why the Church, in its wisdom, the liturgy offers us for this First Sunday of Lent, in this as a first step we take into consideration the Mystery of Christ that leads us to live the Paschal Mystery, the episode of Jesus' temptations in the desert at the beginning of his public life.
enmarcaramos Maybe it was good that this episode in the Gospel story. Jesus submitted to John's baptism in the Jordan had heard the Father's voice from heaven proclaimed him Son of God. 'Thou art my beloved Son, my beloved ...' And then he had gone to the desert. 'Jesus was led into the wilderness by the Spirit ...' Forty days, forty years old image of Israel in the wilderness, for silence, prayer, for fasting. Forty days to savor the desert silence that voice from heaven called him Son of God. It had to demonstrate to the man Jesus as the Son of God who came to bring us salvation.
Jesus is true God, but at the same time true man. He felt in his heart the infinite joy, infinite love overflowing of the divine Trinity, and felt the mission was to make manifest men in the human body as a true man he was. How could he do that mission? How could he manifest Christ among men and women who came to offer salvation?
There was the devil tempting, as is always with us also to get away from the true path confusing our minds and our hearts. The fast had been extended. Jesus was hungry. 'You are the Son of God ... turn these stones into bread ...' can do miracles, you have all the divine power in your hands. Why are you going to starve? Why not be yourself the first beneficiary of your power? But 'not only live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God', is the answer of Jesus to the tempter.
is not the most important material. Is not that what must prevail in life, but we are surrounded by material things and we have every day in our hands. There is something higher, bigger, more important. Listen to God, is the real food that makes us aspire to greater things, to raise our spirits for what was really worth in life. And the ability that God has placed in you is not just for you, think of others, think about what you really have to deal.
continues to haunt the tempter. You are the Son of God, that men have to listen. How will you know? How do you know that God is with you? How are you going to feel attracted to this kingdom again you will advertise? 'Then the devil took him to the holy city, put it in the eaves of the temple, and said: If thou be the Son of God, throw yourself down, it is written, instruct the angels take care of you, and you hold in their hands so that your foot against the stones ... ' With such a miracle, Jesus would be recognized by all. Would that the way to get noticed?
'Do not tempt the Lord your God' . One day teach his disciples that they had to seek human greatness and that would be really important to be able to be last and servant of all. And his greatness we discover in their delivery to the death. He is the Son of God, but was lowered and became the last and the slave of all to give his life for all in death on the cross. And then we can acclaim, is the Lord!
'Then the devil took him to a mountain high and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, he says, all this will give, if thou wilt fall down and worship me ... ' You are the Son of God, come to announce a new realm, I will give you a kingdom , 'this will give you ... if you love me' . How will you bring the kingdom of God? How are you going to proclaim Jesus? It is not the kingdom of the world, is the kingdom of God. Is otherwise the Kingdom of God, because it is not like the kingdoms of this world. 'The Lord your God, worship, and him only shall you worship ... it is written. "
We can not serve two masters, we can not worship God and Mammon, God and the desire for power, to God and to seek human greatness or recognition, to God and our luxuries and vanities. Nothing can take the place of God. We too can become gods ourselves. 'will be like God' , captivating the serpent told Eve to tempt her. And as Adam and Eve fall as so often in such idolatry. It is the temptation that one way or another we still feel in our hearts.
But Jesus goes before us working our way, teaching us the true path, how we overcome and overcome temptation. As we say in the preface: 'When forty days, abstaining from food, opened the practice of our Lenten penance, and to reject the temptations of the enemy we are taught to stifle the power of sin ...'
The Christ's victory over the evil we also opens the door to our victory. With us is his grace, his strength. The light of Christ in His Word about us makes us see our own sinfulness, our fragility, and the temptations to which the enemy wants to submit, but to learn to feel the strength of the grace that the Lord with us. ' Christ is victorious, to also open our hearts to hope and lead us to overcome the temptations of evil' , the Pope says in his Lenten message.
go forward with this journey of Lent sincerity leaving enlightened by the Word of God so we can come to celebrate the paschal mystery as a deposit and pledge of Easter is not just that one day we will celebrate in the glory of sky, living fully the mystery of God.
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