1st Sunday in Lent

These forty days called Lent are like no other. It is our opportune time to return to
the God who rescues, to receive the gifts of God’s grace, to believe with the heart
and confess with the mouth the wonder of God’s love in Jesus, and to resist
temptation at every turn. This is no small pilgrimage on which we have just
embarked. It is a struggle Jesus knew. It is a struggle Jesus shares. The nearness of
the Lord, in bread and wine, water and word, will uphold and sustain us.