temptation
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OVERCOMING TEMPTATION THROUGH THE GRACE OF PRAYER, FASTING, AND ALMSGIVING: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTION: 1ST SUNDAY OF LENT, CYCLE A, 2023

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The Lenten season is a moment of grace given to us by God through his Church´s liturgical celebrations to overcome the temptations of life through the grace of prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Our temptations are what we desire or what we try to renounce. Hence, we will constantly be confronted with temptations from within us and outside us. We need grace and mercy to overcome temptations that plague us daily.

love enemies, pray presecutors, compassion
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LOVE OUR ENEMIES AND PRAY FOR OUR PERSECUTORS: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTION: 7TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, CYCLE A, 2023

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To love our enemies and pray for our persecutors is the Christian calling, we all receive from a merciful and lovely God who urges us to make effort and struggle toward perfection. Hence, today, the challenge in the readings is for us, “to be holy as he the Lord is holy” Lev. 19:2 or “perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect” Mt. 5:48.

law, love, spirit and letter
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CHRISTIAN LIFE IS LOVE AND NOT LAW: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTION: 6TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY, CYCLE A, 2023

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The spirituality of the Christian life is built on the principle of love and not the law as religion indicates. Hence, we are challenged today to obey the spirit and not just the letter of the law. This is why Jesus insists that we go deeper than our external deeds.

light, salt, christian life,
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BE SALT TO THE EARTH AND LIGHT TO THE WORLD: CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCRIPTURE REFLECTION OF THE WEEK: 5TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, CYCLE A, 2023

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The titular call to all Christians is to be salt to the earth and light to the world. As such, the Christian life of prayer and spirituality is not all about what we want God to do for us, it is fundamentally about what God wants us to do, for Him, for others and ourselves. In a world of titleholders, Christ calls or invites us to be the Salt of the Earth and Light of the World.