Lent: March 1-April 14, 2017
The Temptation of Jesus in the
Desert by 16th century master illuminator Simon Bening. …..This depicts
Satan tempting Jesus to change a stone into bread. The other two temptation
sites are included: the temple in the far background where angels would uphold
Jesus in a fall, and the mountain from which Satan would give Jesus all the
kingdoms in the world if Jesus would prostrate and worship Satan. .....88
…….566
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. –Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second
Edition
…….540 Jesus' temptation reveals the way in which the Son of God
is Messiah, contrary to the way Satan proposes to him and the way men wish to
attribute to him.(compare
Matthew 16:21-23.)244 This is why Christ vanquished the Tempter for us: "For we have not a high priest who is
unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been
tested as we are, yet without sinning."(Hebrews 4:15.)245 By the solemn forty days of Lent the Church unites herself each year to the mystery of Jesus in
the desert.
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