The Gospel for the First Sunday of Lent every year is always the Temptation of Jesus, taken in turn from Matthew (this year), Mark and Luke. All three Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) ...

In both Luke’s and Matthew’s Gospels, Jesus begins his public life with a retreat into the desert. In the Judaic tradition, the desert is the place where one encounters God. Jesus goes into the desert ...

Yesterday’s Gospel reading was from the Gospel of Mark, and it told (in part) of Jesus’ temptation in the desert. The lines from Mark read: “The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert, and he remained ...

After Jesus was baptized, Matthew tells us that he was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. Today we'll look at how Jesus faced this time of temptation, and it will show ...