For Your Weekend: Read Before Eating

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Luke 4:1–13

For most of my life, Lent meant praying the stations of the cross, giving something up, and throwing loose change in a box for the poor. All good things, yet nothing more than outward gestures that produced little interior transformation. They were checked boxes that failed to prepare me for battle.

Did you know that on this first Sunday of Lent, you are called into battle?

“On this day, which is the real beginning of Lent, the Church invites us ...