With this first Sunday, we enter into the heart of this experience.
After receiving baptism, Jesus is led by the Spirit into the desert.
seems to be God himself who wanted the temptation of Jesus, before facing his ministry.
It 's the time of the test, the forty days in which he lives various temptations. In particular
Satan, the enemy of God, the attempts on three typical experiences of every person.
A) First, invite Jesus into performing a miracle of turning stones into bread.
E 'temptation economic man, pointing a possedere i soldi, il conto in banca e da lì giudica la realtà.
Ma è anche la tentazione miracolistica, per cui davanti alle fatiche della vita, si spera che qualcuno, con una bacchetta magica, risolva tutti i problemi.
B) La seconda tentazione, più subdola, riguarda l'uomo religioso, ossia il modo di intendere la fede.
Noi diciamo che è importante pregare, però non basta solo pregare, ma conta il modo, lo stile della preghiera.
Da come mi rapporto con Dio, scaturisce il mio modo di vivere il cristianesimo.
Potrei pregare solo perchè I have to appease the wrath of God or because I wish I did miracles, but then I forget when something serious happens.
The risk is to put God under my care, in my image, so I do not let him act freely in me.
It 's a subtle temptation, but unfortunately in today's world is prominent.
C) Finally the last topic concerns the temptation of power: "I'll give you all these kingdoms, if you bow down to me .
E 'at the prospect of who should be empowered to crawl.
It 's the ride who is winning at that time.
E 'the political logic of time and that many people put in place.
We are called to make choices that are to say yes or no to proposals that life presents to us.
All three temptations are very present and we are invited to make choices and courageous counter.
The temptations of Jesus are those that every person carries with him all his life.
Basically, every time we confess these sins, because we all lived on this scale.
Temptation economic, religious and power.
to win and overcome these temptations, that are often subtle, it is necessary to live a true freedom.
E 'stop thinking in society enough to appear. Or that life is a constant satisfying the needs.
O is sufficient to have a modicum of power to bring in others.
pedestal of others becomes our ego.
AND 'the freedom of forgiveness, of bringing in last place, the count for what you are, you serve without reward.
E 'living the logic of generosity and forgiveness, giving importance to small details that just make a great person.
For this reason the Church invites us always to live in those three dimensions, which only won the three temptations.
fasting, charity, prayer.
Lord, help us in this time of Lent to be converted to You, Your Word, disciples of Jesus, brought up to the school of the Holy Gospel.
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