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Lent: The Road to Redemption, Cycle B is unavailable, but you can change that!

Every year on the first Sunday of Lent, the Gospel reading is about Jesus going off to the wilderness, or desert, for 40 days. On Ash Wednesday, we begin our own 40 days in the desert. This penitential season is an intense time of spiritual renewal. The Church especially invites us to pray, fast, and give alms as means of expressing our utter dependence on God who through the waters of baptism...

Noah now enters the stage. Noah was a righteous man who found favor with God (Gen. 6:8–9). We are all very familiar with the story of the flood. Noah, his wife, his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth and their wives were saved from the devastating flood waters by means of the ark they built at God’s command (Gen 6:14–8:15). God’s abiding love for sinful humanity is typically expressed as mercy. By means of the flood, God re-created the world by cleansing it of sin—giving creation a fresh start. This second
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