Sunday - 3/9/2025
Each year on the first Sunday in Lent we hear about Jesus being tested in the wilderness. In this way Jesus joined with us, who are also, one way or another, tested in some wilderness. We say Sundays “in” Lent, since when counting the forty days of Lent, we omit the six Sundays, because Sunday is always a celebration of Christ’s resurrection. So this Sunday we are both in Lent and beyond Lent.

A fifteenth-century painting of the temptation of Christ by the Dutch artist Simon Bening depicts the devil as a man offering Christ a stone to be changed into bread. Notice the devil’s foot!