Sunday 01 March 2020: First Sunday of Lent

Jesus fasted for forty days and nights

...Jesus encourages us to recognise the empty promise of pleasure and possessions, and to find our security in the truths of our Christian faith. As he turns his back on the earthly triumph many of his contemporaries associated with the coming of Israel’s messiah, he invites us to see that a selfish exercise of power over others leads only to bitterness. As he refuses to turn aside from his mission to express the ways of his Father, by becoming involved in the politics of ‘the kingdoms of the world’, he points out to us the way that leads to the true peace yearned for by the peoples of the world...

Extract by John Thornhill sm - read more at The Emmaus Series