To begin Lent the Church asks us to consider the three temptations that Jesus underwent in the desert, according to Matthew and Luke. What is important about the scene of the temptations is the ...

After Jesus was baptized, he journeyed into the wilderness for forty days and was tempted by the Devil. Turning stones into bread, bowing to Satan, and putting God to the test were the three ...

"The Temptation of Christ by the Devil," (possibly 1129–34). (The Met) The account of Jesus’ temptation appears with slight variations in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. These accounts expand upon Mk ...

VATICAN CITY — In his Sunday Angelus message March 9, Pope Francis stressed the importance of resisting temptations by finding refuge in God’s word. Reflecting on Sunday’s Gospel passage of the ...

A depiction of the temptation of Christ. (Credit: Stock image.) Listen Today Christians throughout the world observe the First Sunday of Lent. In the liturgy, the temptations of the Lord Jesus in the ...

In both Luke’s and Matthew’s Gospels, Jesus begins his public life with a retreat into the desert. In the Judaic tradition, the desert is the place where one encounters God. Jesus goes into the desert ...

These are not the sort of words any typically devout movie fan likes to hear applied to a scriptural story. The word is the Word - and should remain so, even when adapted for film. Yet the sort of ...

In his Sunday Angelus message today, Pope Francis stressed the importance of resisting temptations by finding refuge in God's word. Reflecting on Sunday's gospel passage of the temptation of Jesus by ...