Rev. Anthony T. Livolsi
Festival Worship - First Sunday in Advent
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Festival Worship - First Sunday in Lent
If you were to call to mind the story of Jesus’ temptation, likelier than not, the story as told by Matthew or by Luke is what you would be thinking of: where Satan says ‘turn these stones into bread’ and hisses enticements, where Jesus – once, twice, thrice – resists and then rebukes the Tempter. For there is not much to the story as Mark tells it that you might remember – no doing battle with the Devil, no nail-biter of a denouement with Jesus looking down and down off a ledge as we wonder, will he do it? will he leap? Once upon a time, Jesus was tempted in the wilderness. The end.