Month: March 2022

A few days ago, we noticed that we start Lent with the same reading every Ash Wednesday, and it is true also for our First Sunday in Lent – although we read each time from a different Gospel; Mark, Matthew or Luke – we always start with the famous stories of Jesus in the wilderness…

Each year, at the beginning of Lent, on Ash Wednesday, we hear this passage from Matthew’s Gospel, an extract of the famous “Sermon on the Mount” where Jesus reminds the crowd of the basics of Jewish piety: Giving alms, praying and fasting. If you remember from last Sunday, we said that Jesus was the “new…