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Landry<\/p>\n<p>St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New Bedford, MA<\/p>\n<p>First Sunday of Lent, Year A<\/p>\n<p>March 13, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Gen 2:7-9, 3:1-7; Rom 5:12-19; Mt 4:1-11<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following text guided this homily:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Responding to Temptations<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In his beautiful Lenten message\u00a0written to the Catholics of the world, Pope Benedict tells us very clearly what this Sunday is all about: \u201cThe First Sunday of the Lenten journey reveals our condition as human beings here on earth. The victorious battle against temptation, the starting point of Jesus\u2019 mission, is an invitation to become aware of our own fragility in order to accept the Grace that frees from sin and infuses new strength in Christ \u2013 the way, the truth and the life. It is a powerful reminder that Christian faith implies, following the example of Jesus and in union with him, a battle \u201cagainst the ruling forces who are masters of the darkness in this world\u201d (<em>Eph <\/em>6: 12), in which the devil is at work and never tires \u2013 even today \u2013 of tempting whoever wishes to draw close to the Lord: Christ emerges victorious to open also our hearts to hope and guide us in overcoming the seductions of evil.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Pope Benedict built on this in his Ash Wednesday catechesis in which he said, \u201cThe First Sunday of Lent, called Temptation Sunday because it focuses on the temptations of Christ in the desert, invites us to renew our definitive decision for God and courageously to confront the fight that awaits us to remain faithful to Christ. There\u2019s always the need to make a choice, to resist evil, to follow Jesus.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The same devil who tempted Jesus in the desert, the same serpent who tempted Adam and Eve in the first reading, will tempt us, and we are called to imitate Jesus in boldly battling against Satan. The whole reason why we have this Gospel today is because Jesus himself wanted us to know what he went through so that we can learn from him. There were no other eyewitnesses. Jesus himself must have described for St. Matthew and the other apostles what occurred at the end of his 40 days in the Judean desert so that they might never forget two things:\n<ul>\n<li>1) Recognize that the devil exists and is at perpetual war not only with God but also with us.<\/li>\n<li>2) Recognize what means will defeat the devil\u2019s desire to destroy us and God\u2019s image in us forever.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>There are some people who like to pretend that the devil is just some phantasm of medieval theology who dresses in a red jump suit, carries a pitchfork and whispers evil things over our left shoulder. Once people set up this straw-Satan it\u2019s somewhat easy to dismiss him. But this really isn\u2019t who the devil is. The devil is an evil spirit who rejected God\u2019s plans for the human race.\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s impossible to be a good Christian and not recognize the presence of the devil. One of Jesus\u2019 most famous works was exorcisms. He was routinely healing those who were possessed by demons. He sent out his apostles with the power to expel demons. And they did. St. Peter was so aware of the presence of the devil that he warned the first Christians that the devil \u201cprowls like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour. Resist him, solid in your faith.\u201d In baptism, we confess our recognition of the reality of the devil when we explicitly reject Satan, all his evil works and all his empty promises. It\u2019s impossible for us to take our baptismal promises seriously unless we believe in the devil, because we profess our rejection of Satan, all his worthless promises and his evil works.<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s been a healthy recent return, even in Hollywood movies, to the incontestable presence of the devil in the world. In the last decade there have been several movies on exorcism, including the recently released movie, The Rite, who amalgamated various true stories of how the devil showed himself in those who were possessed. The phenomena observed in exorcisms, people speaking ancient languages they\u2019ve never learned backwards, puny teenage girls all of a sudden being stronger than several muscular men three times their size, knowing some of the secret sins of those present, people spitting up nails and other junk, really occur. For us not to take the presence and purpose of the devil seriously would be even more irresponsible than for the U.S. to pretend that Al Qaeda doesn\u2019t exist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The second thing we need to know is how to defeat the devil.\n<ul>\n<li>For most of us, the means is not to call an exorcist because we, thanks be to God, are not possessed. Jesus didn\u2019t need to be exorcised. The apostles didn\u2019t need to be exorcised. St. Anthony didn\u2019t need to be exorcised. The vast majority of us will never need the extraordinary means of exorcism but rather we need \u2014 and need to take advantage of \u2014 the ordinary means God gives us. What are they?<\/li>\n<li>The first is the Sacrament of Confession, whereby after we, like Adam and Eve, have sinned, after we have gotten ourselves dirty in the filth of sin, after we\u2019ve wandered from the Father\u2019s house and love, we come back, with sorrow we beg for God\u2019s forgiveness, and we allow him to cleanse us anew like he cleansed us on the day of our baptism. The devil absolutely wants to do everything possible to keep us from going to confession, to keep us from returning to the state of grace, to keep us in his clutches. And we have to be honest: he has triumphed with so many people in this way, getting them first to sin and then to convince them either that they don\u2019t need God\u2019s forgiveness or get them to put off coming to receive it. He wants to get us to used to living with mortal sins on our soul so that we treat them as not that big a deal, so that, for example, we\u2019ll come to confession once a year and then give a list of mortal sins, of voluntarily missed Sunday Masses, of lying, of cheating, of failure to pray, of blasphemy, of bad words, deeds and omissions toward\u00a0 family members, friends or co-workers. If we\u2019re going to defeat the devil, we need the Sacrament of Confession. That\u2019s where Jesus expels demons from our lives.<\/li>\n<li>The second thing Jesus gives us are the Lenten practices of fasting, prayer and almsgiving, which strengthen us against the three main categories of temptations the devil uses against us. We see these three main categories in the temptations Jesus withstood in the Gospel.\n<ul>\n<li>The first is to focus on material hunger rather than spiritual hunger \u2014\u00a0Jesus had fasted for 40 days and it was understandable that, at least at a physical level, he would have been physically weak. In the temptation to change stones shaped like loaves into bread, Jesus was faced with the temptation to seek to satisfy above all his earthly hunger, to focus on getting a this-worldly meal, to use his talents for his own benefit rather than for God and others. What was his response? He cited the Word of God that we don\u2019t live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God. He prioritized his spiritual hunger over his material hunger. He found his life in something other than three-squares a day. We need to learn from this. Many of us, even though we say we believe in God, practically live as materialists. We work so hard to put food in our refrigerator and on our tables, but don\u2019t work as hard or at all to nourish ourselves spiritually. That\u2019s why we\u2019re vulnerable to the devil\u2019s temptations. Fasting precisely helps us to reorder everything, to say no to the devil\u2019s temptations to prioritize our stomach rather than our soul. When it comes to fasting, many of us, as I\u2019ve been saying, are sissies. We fast a little, rather than fast boldly. What would you think about a professional football player who works out by lifting five-pound barbells rather than does serious weight-lifting? He wouldn\u2019t stand a chance on the field. Well we think we can be strengthened to battle against the devil just by giving up some sweets. We need to do more. But there\u2019s another part: we need to feed off the word of God. What are we filling ourselves with. Pope Benedict said on Wednesday, \u201cWe do not fasting truly unless we are being nourished by the Word of God.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The second is to distort our relationship with God, becoming presumptuous, getting him to get us out of jams rather than putting him first and seeking to do his will. Parapet of the temple. Prayer.<\/li>\n<li>The third is to distort our relationship with others. To have dominion over them, rather than to serve them. Almsgiving.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for today&#8217;s Mass were:<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 1\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/genesis\/2:7\">GN 2:7-9; 3:1-7<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">The LORD God formed man out of the clay of the ground<br \/>\nand blew into his nostrils the breath of life,<br \/>\nand so man became a living being.<\/p>\n<p>Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east,<br \/>\nand placed there the man whom he had formed.<br \/>\nOut of the ground the LORD God made various trees grow<br \/>\nthat were delightful to look at and good for food,<br \/>\nwith the tree of life in the middle of the garden<br \/>\nand the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.<\/p>\n<p>Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the animals<br \/>\nthat the LORD God had made.<br \/>\nThe serpent asked the woman,<br \/>\n\u201cDid God really tell you not to eat<br \/>\nfrom any of the trees in the garden?\u201d<br \/>\nThe woman answered the serpent:<br \/>\n\u201cWe may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden;<br \/>\nit is only about the fruit of the tree<br \/>\nin the middle of the garden that God said,<br \/>\n\u2018You shall not eat it or even touch it, lest you die.\u2019\u201d<br \/>\nBut the serpent said to the woman:<br \/>\n\u201cYou certainly will not die!<br \/>\nNo, God knows well that the moment you eat of it<br \/>\nyour eyes will be opened and you will be like gods<br \/>\nwho know what is good and what is evil.\u201d<br \/>\nThe woman saw that the tree was good for food,<br \/>\npleasing to the eyes, and desirable for gaining wisdom.<br \/>\nSo she took some of its fruit and ate it;<br \/>\nand she also gave some to her husband, who was with her,<br \/>\nand he ate it.<br \/>\nThen the eyes of both of them were opened,<br \/>\nand they realized that they were naked;<br \/>\nso they sewed fig leaves together<br \/>\nand made loincloths for themselves.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/51:3\">PS 51:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 17<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">R\/ (cf. 3a)\u00a0<strong>Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.<\/strong><br \/>\nHave mercy on me, O God, in your goodness;<br \/>\nin the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense.<br \/>\nThoroughly wash me from my guilt<br \/>\nand of my sin cleanse me.<br \/>\nR\/\u00a0<strong>Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.<\/strong><br \/>\nFor I acknowledge my offense,<br \/>\nand my sin is before me always:<br \/>\n\u201cAgainst you only have I sinned,<br \/>\nand done what is evil in your sight.\u201d<br \/>\nR\/\u00a0<strong>Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.<\/strong><br \/>\nA clean heart create for me, O God,<br \/>\nand a steadfast spirit renew within me.<br \/>\nCast me not out from your presence,<br \/>\nand your Holy Spirit take not from me.<br \/>\nR\/<strong>\u00a0Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.<\/strong><br \/>\nGive me back the joy of your salvation,<br \/>\nand a willing spirit sustain in me.<br \/>\nO Lord, open my lips,<br \/>\nand my mouth shall proclaim your praise.<br \/>\nR\/\u00a0<strong>Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bibleReadingsWrapper\">\n<h4>Reading 2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/romans\/5:12\">ROM 5:12-19<\/a><\/h4>\n<div class=\"poetry\">Brothers and sisters:<br \/>\nThrough one man sin entered the world,<br \/>\nand through sin, death,<br \/>\nand thus death came to all men, inasmuch as all sinned\u2014<br \/>\nfor up to the time of the law, sin was in the world,<br \/>\nthough sin is not accounted when there is no law.<br \/>\nBut death reigned from Adam to Moses,<br \/>\neven over those who did not sin<br \/>\nafter the pattern of the trespass of Adam,<br \/>\nwho is the type of the one who was to come.<br \/>\nBut the gift is not like the transgression.<br \/>\nFor if by the transgression of the one, the many died,<br \/>\nhow much more did the grace of God<br \/>\nand the gracious gift of the one man Jesus Christ<br \/>\noverflow for the many.<br \/>\nAnd the gift is not like the result of the one who sinned.<br \/>\nFor after one sin there was the judgment that brought condemnation;<br \/>\nbut the gift, after many transgressions, brought acquittal.<br \/>\nFor if, by the transgression of the one,<br \/>\ndeath came to reign through that one,<br \/>\nhow much more will those who receive the abundance of grace<br \/>\nand of the gift of justification<br \/>\ncome to reign in life through the one Jesus Christ.<br \/>\nIn conclusion, just as through one transgression<br \/>\ncondemnation came upon all,<br \/>\nso, through one righteous act,<br \/>\nacquittal and life came to all.<br \/>\nFor just as through the disobedience of the one man<br \/>\nthe many were made sinners,<br \/>\nso, through the obedience of the one,<br \/>\nthe many will be made righteous.<\/p>\n<h4>Gospel\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/4:1\">MT 4:1-11<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>At that time Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert<br \/>\nto be tempted by the devil.<br \/>\nHe fasted for forty days and forty nights,<br \/>\nand afterwards he was hungry.<br \/>\nThe tempter approached and said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cIf you are the Son of God,<br \/>\ncommand that these stones become loaves of bread.\u201d<br \/>\nHe said in reply,<br \/>\n\u201cIt is written:<br \/>\n<em>One does not live on bread alone,<br \/>\nbut on every word that comes forth<br \/>\nfrom the mouth of God<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then the devil took him to the holy city,<br \/>\nand made him stand on the parapet of the temple,<br \/>\nand said to him, \u201cIf you are the Son of God, throw yourself down.<br \/>\nFor it is written:<br \/>\n<em>He will command his angels concerning you<br \/>\nand with their hands they will support you,<br \/>\nlest you dash your foot against a stone<\/em>.\u201d<br \/>\nJesus answered him,<br \/>\n\u201cAgain it is written,<br \/>\n<em>You shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test<\/em>.\u201d<br \/>\nThen the devil took him up to a very high mountain,<br \/>\nand showed him all the kingdoms of the world in their magnificence,<br \/>\nand he said to him, &#8220;All these I shall give to you,<br \/>\nif you will prostrate yourself and worship me.\u201d<br \/>\nAt this, Jesus said to him,<br \/>\n\u201cGet away, Satan!<br \/>\nIt is written:<br \/>\n<em>The Lord, your God, shall you worship<br \/>\nand him alone shall you serve<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then the devil left him and, behold,<br \/>\nangels came and ministered to him.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. 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