This Week’s Gospel Message for Sunday, March 10th is from Luke 4:1-13.
“Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, to be tempted by the devil. . . . Jesus said to [the devil] in reply, ‘It also says, You shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test.’ When the devil had finished every temptation, he departed from him for a time.”
“In tempting Jesus, the devil tries to prove that he, not God, was in control. . . . Jesus refutes the devil at every turn, and does so by asserting God’s preeminence.”
Source: Pastoral Patterns, Winter 2018-2019
DAILY READINGS FOR THE WEEK
Monday Lev 19:1-2, 11-18; Matt 25:31-46
Tuesday Isa 55:10-11; Matt 6:7-15
Wednesday Jonah 3:1-10; Luke 11:29-32
Thursday Esther C:12, 14-16, 23-25; Matt 7:7-12
Friday Ezek 18:21-28; Matt 5:20-26
Saturday Deut 26:16-19; Matt 5:43-48